Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1915-04-01

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iected for her. staring hungrily out on
the shimmering sea that. now wholly
Invested OF its shroud. smiled up 10
the heavens. whose sapphire face 1t
mirrored. as fair and sweet OF seem
ing AS though it had never yelled
heartless tragedy.
Slowly it darkened as the sapphire
above grew darker. blending insen-
eibly into rare ultramarne with the
slow decline OF the sun. by whose al
ttude above the horizon the day had
not more than ninety minutes 10 run.
And she thought drowsily that II
that sun sank without her learning
that her lover lived, it would not rise
again upon a world tenanted by Rose
Trne.
It was not true. she told herself that
people never die OF broken hearts
She knew that. were he taken from
her she could no longer live.
And sleep overwhelmed her sud
denly like a great, dark cloud
But its dominion over her faculties
was not of long duration. Slowly.
heavily. mutinously. she was rescued
from its nirvana-came to her senses
with an effect OF enc who energies
from some vast place Of blackness and
terror, TO ind Barcus kneeling over
and gingerly but persistently shaking
her by the shoulder
And then she sat up with cry OF
mystifed compassion; for in the brief
time that he had been absent-it had
not been more than an hOur-Mr. Bar,
Gus had most unquestionably been Sc
verely used
He had acquired a long cut over one
eye, but shallow, upon which blood
had dried. together with a bruised and
swollen cheek that was badly
scratched to boot. And what simple
articles of clothing remained to him,
after his strenuous experiences Of the
last torty-eight hours, had been re-
duced to even greater simplicity; his
shirt. for example. now lacked sleeve
that had been altogether torn away
at the shoulder
NO" he told her, as soon as he saw
her wits were awake once more
don't waste time plying me I'm all
right-and so is Alan, That's the
main thing for you to understand; he's
still alive and sound"
But where is ne? Take me to
him she demanded, rising with a
movement OF such grace and yigor
that 1t seemed hard 10 believe she had
ever known an instants WEAKNESS.
That's the rub" Barcus confessed.
squatting on the sands and Knocking
his hair. Il dassent take you TO him
Judith might object. Besides. you can
see for yourself it isn't safe to mingle
with the inhabitants OF this tight
little island AID You can't get to
where Alan IS VIZ, .t mlusl.ng con
siderably. SIT dot . and Ill tell you
al about il. and veil try to figure out
what's best to BE- done. Maybe We
r.n manage a rescue under cover OF
night"
And when the girl had settled her
self beside him he launched into a
detailed report.
Its Katama island. all right" he
announced but a change has come
over the place since | visited 1t some
years ago. Then it was a community
OF simple-hearted villagers and fisher.
men; now, unless all signs fail, it's a
den OF smugglers. | noticed a num-
Der of Chinese about; and that. taken
in connection with the fact that, when
| ventured to introduce myself to the
village ginmill and ask a few inno-
cent questions, the entire population.
TO child, landed on me like a thou
sand brick-the two circumstances
made me think we'd stumbled on a
settlement OF earnest workers at the
gentle art Of helping poor Cinnamon
evade the exclusion laws"
With.a wry smile. he pursued LAS
for me, landed out back of the Joint
On the nape Of my neck, and took the
count, surrounded by lot Of unsym.
pathetic boxes and barrels that had
seen better days. And when came to
and started to crawl unostentatiously
away, / was just in time to witness the
landing OF your amiable sister that
gang OF cutthroats she keeps on the
pay roll, and Alan in company with a.
choice a crew OF scoundrels as voud
care to see. | gathered from a few
words that leaked out of the hack door
OF the barroom, that it was as I had
thought-Judith had stolen boat
from the ship that picked her up. and
rammed 1t on NOrton's reef: and after
she gathered Alan in the schooner ~
these smugglers happened along. and
she nailed 1t and struck a bargain with
the captain and signed co-partnershin
artcles, or something like that ANY.
way, her lot and the islanders wera
soon as thick as thieves, and tanking
up SO socially that | actually got a
chance to whisper a word to Alan and
tell MIN you were all right. and that
ned md us both down here on tho
beach' If luck served him with an 90.
cape. That was all got a cbance IN
say for Judith marched up Just then
ana yanked him off to his cell mon
10 say. he's locked up now in q ltro
stone hut on the edge of the cliff win
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