Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-07

way toward Champerico's capital. To lay his hands on
Alvarado the abiding desire of his heart that
moment. Joan Shaw and Billy Sanderson belonged in
another world just then. Alvarado had destroyed the
Electra To have eye for eye and tooth for tooth
was the single cry of the avenging spirit that ruled him.
ooh, you have loved anybody, or you
would listen to me- Captain OBrien" cried the girl
catching him by the hand.
At that Pericles glance dropped from the mountains
to where the bridge and shattered wheelhouse of the
Electra lay awash in the tidal foreground. As his eyes
came to rest the bridge he for second through
mist, the slight and supple figure of girl with dark,
wnd-blown hair standing there,-she who had brought
his first fine love for into his life and whose
lips had sealed his triumph when began to hail him
as Perices of the Nanaimo. And Joan Shaw felt the
big hand to which she cnging suddenly close very
tenderly on hers and then her brain went swimming;
for in that instant Percles O'Brens masterfu voice
booming at the released prisoners pilng over
the side:
Cup anchor and get under way for Ocos!'
for action and with white, thirteen-knot bone in
her teeth flung herself through the Heads of Ocos,
sixtyve miles to the northward of Cristoba As she
rounded to- cleaning with menace three hundred yards
off Ocoss two struggling PIERS launchoad of smiling
and gold-laced oficialdom laid alongside.
@Sheer off fifteen feet!" snarled Pericles leaning
out the bridge rail- and the order sped from his
lips half dozen of the Salvatore DULLES, ready and
spelling for fight hurled her back among snal-boat
squadron of civilians that bore her company. @Now
steady you lay' his next command and the
launch and other craft with their occupants
staring in at the rangy feet and two inches of
bareheaded wrath that glowered down upon them.
And there most excellent for that awe; for
hour previously the government wireless station had
stolen from the air the tale of what this had done
that morning at Crstobal, the commander of the
liner Granada reported it to the commander of her sister
ship A1hambra at sea.
a have message for your President, Butcher Borel
in that palace up there the hill wherever else he
may happen to be-! Pericles the silence
that followed his order and biting off each word with
reshot sharpness. Il don't who carries it. Tell
II will be honored, Captain be your messenger
interrupted tall Champerican in the uniform of
French artillery Colonel rising in the stern of the gov
eminent launch and speaking in the cearest English.
a aide to his Excellency have the honor
Enough! Tell that black and tan the hill that
the stroke of two ocock-it twenty-five, my
time-I will begin blowing Ocos into the water unless
motorboat the farthest edge of the listening fleet
became streak of white foam where it darted shore
ward with these tdings Percles paused long enough
to tell Coogan to let it go, and then he continued
unless an American citizen named William Sanderson,
held prisoner by Bore is aboard this vessel unharmed
Understand that-at two o'clock precisely will begin
to talk with cold steel!'
Who heard Pericles OBren and saw his face in that
knew that only death itself could stay his will
Turning from the boats below him, he finished, and
toward Coogan, standing in mdbridge at the engine
room telegraph he said in the calmest of tones:
"Get under way, Sir and proceed to practise with
your largest guns
@But you forgot the claim for sinking the Electra!"
protested Coogan. you've got their goats You said
better.
Get under way, Sir" commanded Perices. u can't
bargain in dollars and cents with mans life stake
I'm no pawnshop keeperl" and assuredly the white