The daily sentinel., 1914-05-27


Ikt gaze not noticing that his masters
N0 thoughts very far away from
him There ominous pur-
posefulness about the great nterhatlohal spy lna'
seemed to his follower a thing loaned from some
thing tremendously evil.
But Loubeque's thoughts were upon the glri'
Lucille who had thwarted him so many times
he WIS only lust beginning to realize that Destiny
WINS working in her behalf. protecting her from
him urging her to the desperate chances she
had already taken, giving her courage and conn
dence to 20 even further than she had already
Was il possible that he could fan, could De
beaten by this pretty slip of girl, no more than
out Of her teens; he, who, judging nations to be
no stronger than the weakest individual, hau
brought about the wreck OF nations; he, who had
worked through the civilized and unciviized world
TO prepare himself for his great act OF vengeance
aud always worked successfully, should finally deal
the eliminating blow against his enemy only to
find this fragile Lucille more than counteractihS
his sturdiest efforts?
. Swiftly he reviewed the succession of events
which had followed the placing of the papers and
ordvrs OF her iaEer in his hands by the THEY Sc
had been iustifeh in thinking himself clear OF
any possibility df failure when Lucille appeared
10 confront him, conquering the distance between
the liner and the shore by the aeroplane when
was being used at the post for army rnaneuvers.
His destruction of the wireless outfit had re-
acted against himself hurting its flaming finger
against him and rendering him helpless. And IN
this state, out of this helpessness had grown
situation which made it possible for the girl Luz
ellie, to nurse him and eventually discover the
location of the missing papers. When the mighty
liner took fire and recourse was had to the me
boats only his marvellous nerve and purposeiul-
ness had made it possible for him to find place
beside the girl and, with his hands practically
upon the papers more Nature had stepped
in and crushed the boat against the burning
vessel. bearing her from out his reach. An atom
upon that world of endless water, what superior
being had decreed that she be saved from death;
what power had guided friendly native feet to-
l.y md %I,,
jungle? Was 1t not strength greater than his
own that looked over her He shook his shoul-
ders irritably, ashamed for the weakness that had
made him admit of such question rising in his
brain.
Though Destiny, Fate, Circumstance-call it
what he woud-appeared upon her side, it could
not always be wakeful in her behalf. But he-he,
Hugo Loubeque, had been wakeful thirty-nine
years, his eye never off the man he hated and the
revenge he sought. Though Nature conspred in
her behalf he, by his own indomitable will, had
fought down the ocean, had discovered the girl,
and was so close to the papers he only had but
10 reach out his hands to gain them.
But how-how the question that per-
picked aud annoyed him? Times, in pondering it,
ne would grow so enraged that he thoughtnf TAX
ing them from her by sheer force. But always
there was her face, the face of her mother whom
ne had loved still loved in memory, TO rise up
ana deter him. No she must be tricSed into dis
closure of the precious documents herself.
That she carried them upon her person he
knew The scheme he had worked out through
the eNi-eyed native he had picked up in the
jungle and frightened into superstitious awe and
Implct obedience had shown him that much.
Inc plg snake working his sinister length through
Tue matched roof of her hut had frightened her
away sufficiently long time for him to make
sAeh search as permitted of hiding place
Ior them The papers were upon her person, the
papers and the diary of his life which he desired
no less. And there small time to spare.
Aes, he must move swiftly. He must strike
now while she taking stock of her desperate
t''uaton, while she nourished the belief that his
,Wo preceding failures would be followed by a
I'M respite The papers upon her per-
son that much he knew. His whole nature re-
ss4ued at the idea of searching her for them.
she' herself, must be forced to give them up
was to frighten her by some such immediate peril
es would dwarf them before the instructive
"ousht OF self-preservation.
Long he pondered the situation his great
LOU oulking in its shadow across the hut. his
e Laee stern, imperturbable, betrayng none of the
euo' ions dominating his very heart and soul, his
~ treat pools of inky blaclSness staring always
loe-".s hlin unwinking and fathomless before the
"'n ration he had placed upon himself.
JiiA native had brought him word of the way
~ei'ie ~ mad saved the Chiefs daughter from death
So ~ consequence been presented with the
,I'ed amulet of the country He realized that
4; , shorant saNages regarded her as something
~ ~ we nature of deity. Had it not been for that
~ pIpefs would now be his. This was another
; ;'S ne must take iato consideration while weav-
I'll ms ms plot. They would permit no harm to be-
W.. VT SO long as she remained with them.
N,ght had long since fallen when he stirred
a us motionless position, before the sombre