The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1915-04-27

was any serious OF concentrated al-
tempt to harm Miss Marvin" he said
If | had thought SO, | would have used
the power of the police and the courts
and the Marvin fortune to offset it.
But always as you know, the little ad-
, ventures have come out safely. Miss
Marvin has not been hunt; the 'pranks'
as you call them, amuse her. What
should | do?"
! "Order her to stop on penalty of be-
| ing taken to court as a lunatic," said
| Harry holly. "You know perfectly
we'll that all of her real perils-and
there have been many came through
just such affairs as this"
"As what?"
Driving off alone in motorboat.
Look"
He passed his glasses to Owen, who
gazed through them with an interest,
J the intensity of which Harry did not
understand.
"She has the dog with her." said the
secretary, returning the glasses.
eyes," said Harry, "she seems to
prefer its companionship to mine.
What the deuce!" he added in a sud
den exclamation: my feet are wet! T"
"You may have dipped in the sea
as you left the boat" suggested Owen,
with only the faintest culver of his
expressive eyebrows.
II don't dip in the sea with BOTH
feet when I'm climbing from we'll
hammered motorboat to a sound yacht
in smooth water" replied Harry.
He looked again, with a new inter
est" through the glasses, to where
the motorboat, guided by Pauline, was
speeding down the bay. He could see
the little bull-terrier in Pauline's arms
She seemed to be trying to teach it to
run the boat, for its paws were placed
upon the wheel.
I'D like to know how I got these
wet feet" persisted Harry as he walk
ed down the deck to the cabin.
If he had been able to see at that
moment the expression on the face of
Pauline as she looked on her own
dainty spat-topped boots, he would not
have gone into the cabin.
Pauline's shoes were wet too. She
| looked about on the bottom of the boat
| for the source of the moisture. There
was only thin dull coating of water
| in the hold-such as might have come
| from a heavy wave had the weather
| been blowing. But there was no wealth
er to speak of and there were no
waves, Pauline's bewilderment soon
gave place to alarm. She left the dog
with its paws on the wheel and NOV
ed forward. She felt in every ere
vice of the boats bottom.
Suddenly she lunged forward in
eager fear. Her hand had touched
drenched wadding. The touch was
enough to loosen the thin stopper of
waste that Owen had placed in the
hole he had made. Next moment Pau
line was striving in vain to press back
the plug, but it was too late. The
water, urged by the rush of the swift
boat, came spouting through the hole.
Pauline crept back and cought up
handful of clean waste that lay be-
side the engine. She tried to press
| this this into the rift. 1t was instant
| soaked and useless, She became des-
| perate For moment she stood up
and gazed out over the peaceful wa
ters. But she had sped the little craft
so far that she was beyond the bay,
beyond all sight of sail or steamer,
save low gray wall of slowly moving
craft that marked the line of battle
ships out for target practice. The
gray way was very far away, but
Pauline waved her arms and called
feebly into the futile distance. There
was no answer. The glasses of the
officers of the fleet were busy ranging
the targets. The warning signals had
been put out by the patrols, and no
| craft was supposed to be anywhere
near. Pauline sank again to the bot
tom of the boat. She tore pieces from
her dress and damned them into the
leak. She tried to stop the leak with
her bare hands. The water, squirting
through her fingers, Kissed venom
ously.
She went back to the wheel The
dog, instictively seeming their peril
whined plaintively as she lifted him to
her lap.
! 1--WE can't get back, but we'll get as