The daily sentinel., 1914-06-17

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no" now that choice has been st,,r,ii ~. -
@ tne lace OF the woman 1 loved sl,au never trt-
mo IIlto tN eyes with tina; reproach iu her o,,, NJ
tin my heart. Au'' H. zee!
She watched him, fascinated. as he coolIv
tpse ana examined the provisions apportio,r1
i' counting each biscuit, testing the ,,,tor
hes. For Just second She fancjrd . l,i
crossed Crossed ms face then he turned and smiled re-
By stinting there is enough for tlre. l,,.s
ne sald quietly. Il think il ,yould he betta. 20
wait TN morning" He drew his conf ~ ,,d
passed 1t to her, frowning down her remon
Arahces at the deprivation. The warmth M il
iluue e Ger realile for the first time that She had
oeen chilled through by the cold night air and
she mashed him look of gratitude. Watching hin,
as ne bent over a slip of paper and co,,u,ss mol
ii,s S[arSe marks now and then upon the parer
after long scrutiny of the stars Never rpTine.
ms splendid body, absolutely absorbed in nokin,
ma M erGue reckonings' Hugo Loubcque worked,
Whie the eyes of Lucille closed drowsilv. open-
ing ana shutting though she would fight away
the slumber that would come. and finally clos
ing softly in profound sleep
She woke to sensation of main in her head
as though some giant weight rested there press
ing down as though to crunch the forehead For
moment she did not realize where she was
stared aoout her perpeXedly, tried to identify the
gentle undulating motion of the boat, the soft
sweeping sound OF the waters Then her eyes met
the melancholy ones of Hugo Loubeque fastened
upon her as though he had not stirred from the
position she had marked him in when she went
10 sleep There was something in their depths
Nhlch alarmed her now something of forebod-
ing which made her rise hastily. The spy smiled
The sun was beating down upon them fer
ociously as though it would consume those hardy
lntruders Heat rays danced blindingly in every
direction, mirroring the waves tantalizinglv Her
head aehed, when she would have spoken. she
found her tongue swollen, her voice thick, her
lips ..%G P2rehed
glared in horror at the international spy's down
east face She half rose then sank back to her
elbow again. Loubeque moved carefully TO her
side, placing his hand upon her arm
There is no water" he said gently an
their hurry they put an empty keg in the boat"
No - witt" She repeated the
words slowly, as does child interpreting a les
son. meaningless to him. "No water'
there" he murmured soothingly
IT Is the test of Fate, my dear Try not to
He did not finish for the pity within him at
her brave struggle not to show her fear, her pain.
Her lips trembled as she tried bravely to smile
then, with a determined effort she sat upright
When she would have spoken he shook his head
negatively and she knew he wished to conserve
even the strength that words would expend Her
head ached maddeningly and the seemed to
fairly sizzle down upon her. Times when she al
lowed their dreadful predicament to burst upon
her fully she would shake with the ague.
Last night. when l discovered the keg was
empty" Loubeque said reassuringly, II started
working out our reckoning. We we'll within
the fishing zone of the coast. There is always
a chance of being picked up. Don't fear, Lucille"
She smiled brnvey, the effort only making
her realize that the heat paralyzing her facial
muscles. After that, she sat quite still, enduring
in silence the maddenng heat the worse thirst
Times, she thought she would be unable to stand
IT longer, that she must reach into this end
less expanse of ocean and drink-drink; that she
must plunge the boats side and allow the
suit wnter to be absorbed by her body. From
Watching the heat and enduring the sun
her head was spinning like top mirages of dsz-
cling beauty We're dancing before her only to re-
cede and intensity her agony by their Illusion
Sanity toppled reeed, but always would she fight
it back, inspired by the silent figure of her
enemy
Night and the stars but night and stars from
which all kindness had fled. Night that should
have veiled the endless reach of water that com
passed them about, stars that coldly stared upon
the pair and brutally revealed their dire catastro
phe. Lucille felt something suddenly snap with
in her throbbing forehead, little accident that
seemed To instantly stop the agony and suffuse
her with delicious coolness that changed slowly
to more intense heat than the had
brought. She knew 1t would be impossible to
endure the strain longer. Her brain seemed
whrling in another direction, like clock whose
springs had suddenly gone ;Inad. She could feel
a strange desire to laugh aloud she looked
over the boats side and dnbbled her fingers into
the cooling water Loubeqnes silent figure was
motionless In long. gliding motion she half
then dropped swiftly from the boat, the wa
ter eneircling her, cooling her, tapping at her
ears in soothing refrain that luled her senses to
glorious sleep, visioness. profound. sleep IN
which there voices shrill male
voice that banged at her drums; In which
there no force save the tender grip of the
ocean and a minute, alien tightening upon her
arm; such sleep she had never dreamed of
having; sleep from which all incentive for
wakefulness had departed and into which only the
ppnic-strclen, agonized face OF her enemy, Hugo
Ioubeque, intruded. She fought to open her eyes
as the spy pinched her arm tried TO shake her
head reprovingly at him. And then she succeeded
and in fash of sanity shuddered at the horri-
fed face of the who dragging her back
into the boat, face wherein the features were
distorted the teeth barred from the strain of her
weight upon his shoulders. Darkness, blank, i'm
penetrable-s um b er. in-haunied-sun and
desert with mirages of water that receded before
her lips
CHAPTER XXII1
The Mystery Of Voice.
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