Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-31
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Florence had never seen Braine till he
appeared at the Barnes cottage Yet
she revolted at the touch Of his hand;
hated him with a violence which
would have stirred the scientific in
terest of an alienist. She wanted to
hurt him, torture him, beat him down
and trample on him But as this was
a physical impossibility. she did the
next most agreeable thing to her dis
ordered mind. On the second day out
toward New York, she found a box
of matches and blithely set fire to her
cabin, walked out into the corridor
and thenee to the deck. When the
fire was discovered 1t had gained too
much Roadway to be stopped. The
yacht was doomed. They put off in
the boats and for half a day drifted
helplessly.
Fate has everything mapped out
like game of chess You move a
pawn, and bang goes, your bishop, or
your knight, or your king; or she let's
you almost win game, and then
checkmates you. But there is one
thing to be said in her fayor-rail
at her how we will, she is always
giving odds to the innocent.
Mike Bannock was in the pilot
house. looking over his charts, when
the lookout in the crows nest sang
OuL- y WI bOdtb quill Oil lAi0 pull
bow. siri" And Bannock, who was a
flrst-class sailor, although rough
one, shouted down the tube to the
engine-room. The freighter came to
halt in about ten minutes. The
eastaways saw that they had been
noted, and pulled CALAMITY at the
oars.
There are some things which sci
ence, well advanced as 1t is, cannot
explain. Among them is the shock
which cuts off the past and the coun-
They may write treatise after treatise
and expound, but they never succeed
in truly getting beyond that dark
wall of mystery.
At the sound of Jim Norton's voice
and at the sight of his face-for sub
consciously she must have been
thinking of him all the while--a great
binding heat wave seemed to burn
across her eyes. and when the effect
passed away she was herself again.
A wild glance at her surroundings
convinced her that both she and her
lover were In danger.
Keep back" whispered Jim. Don't
recognize me-"
They believe that I've lost my
mind, and I'll keep that idea in their
heads. Some time tonight I'll find
chance to talk to you
1t took a good deal of cautious
maneuvering to bring about the
meeting.
"They shanghaide me, and
thought you dead! 1t was all wrong.
1t was trick Of that Perigof wom-
an, and II succeeded. Girl, girl, | love
you better than lifei"
IT know it now" she said. and she
kissed him. HAS my father appeared
yet?"
mo.
'Do you know anything at all about
him?" sadly.
IT thought I did. It's all tumble
to me. But beware of the man who
brought you here. He is the head OF
all our troubles; and If he knew
was on board he'd kill me out OF
hand. He'd have to-"
Braine offered Bannock thousand
dollars to turn back as far as Bos-
ton; and as Bannock had all the time
in the world, carrying no perishable
goods. he consented But he never
could quite understand what followed.
He had put Florence and Braine in
the boat and landed them; but when
he went down to see If Braine had
left anything behind. he found that
individual bound and gagged in his
bunk.
CHAPTER XII.
When Jones received the telegram
that Florence was safe, the iron nerve
of the man broke down. The suspense
had been so keenly terrible that the
sudden reaction left him almost
historically weak. Three weeks of
waiting. waiting. Not even the
scoundrel and his wife who had been
the principal actors in the abduction
had been found. From great ship in
midocean they had disappeared.
Doubtless they had hidden among the
Immigrants. who, for a little money,