The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-10-18

TtuSSuTtu nllllt llt NOulu llllu a. nag
station where Mt midnight he could flag
train going north. In an hour 1t
would deliver him safely in Jackson
vile.
There was a moon. but for the greater
part OF the time 1t was hidden by fitful.
hurrying clouds. and as David stumbled
forward at one moment he would see
the rails like streaks OF silver. and the
next would he encompassed in n COM
plete and bewildering darkness. He
made his way from tie to tie only by
feeling with his foot. After an hour
he came to shed. Whether it was
or was not the flag station the conduc-
tor had in mind ne did not know. and
he never did know.
He was too tired, too hot and 100
Disguised to proceed, and dropping his
suit case he sat down under the open
roof OF the shed prepared to wait either
for the train or daylight. So far as he
could see, on every side of him stretched
swamp. silent. dismal. interminable
From its black water rose dead trees
| naked of bark and hung with stream
| ers of funeral moss. There was not
sound or sign of human habitation.
The silence was the silence of the ocean
at night.
David remembered the berth resery ed
| for him on the train to Tampa and Of
the loathing with which he had con-
sidered placing himself between its
sheets. But now how gladly would he
welcome 1t! For in the sleeping car,
III smelling close and stuffy he at least
would have been surrounded by fellow
sufferers OF his own species Here his
companions were owls. water snakes
and sleeping buzzards.
| IL am alone" he told himself ION a
railroad embankment, entirely sur
rounded by alligators"
And then he found he was not alone.
In the darkness. illuminated by a
match, not a hundred yards from him
there flashed suddenly the face Of a
man. Then the match went out and
the face with II. David noted that IL
had appeared at some height above the
level OF the swamp at an elevation
| higher even than that of the embank-
ment. 1t was as though the man had
| been sitting on the limb of a tree.
David crossed the tracks and found
| hat on the side of the embankment
opposite the shed there was solid ground
and what once had been wharf. He
advanced over this cautiously. and as
ne did so the cIouds dis,nrc,rod ,d
| in tho fut u,,bt 90 ~, 80, -.
bayou broadenipg I'M, r,,.or y
made fast IN tho dcc.ved ana ro,,t,'e,
wharf an oceonynin,, 80. nus,
from her deck tina. tho man IN ,i,h,tr,,
his nina bod sh"n.,' h, ,''. 80 III "s'''"E
Ar tho tbougbt ., = -, ,.-.
room and tho cnuno,,. ~, 81. sa T''.u
croat,ros na,.i,.I % M le"UW
Measure He ,d,,rcad o,,iai,,,, 49,,
| then something in tho anraara,c ,, ~
, tug. sometbinr mvs,eriors saor",,,.o
threatening coused hin, ~ hal,
No lights shaved IRON, hfr ,.,,.
room cabin or Mia, ho,,sa ~. i-I,.s
were emptv Rut as vas a,.i,,o,,oos w..
The black smoke thai rns,. fran, hor t,,,,
mel she was awake ana au.,ta 90 go
purpose. David stood uncor,atr,, CO.
/ tioning vbe,bor 10 - ~,
known or return ia tho lo,eIi,.,ss % 49,,
shed The question was decided for hin,
He had not considor,d ,ha, s,a,'.,i., 'I''''
the moonlight ne was n consnicu,,,s
figure. The planks of the wharf creoled
and man came toward him ,,,
who means to attack or who ,e,rs A.
tack. he approached worilv. He wore
high boots. riding breeches and a s,r,.
| brero. He was a little man b,t bis
movements were alert and active IT,
David he seemed unnecessarily excited