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The commOneSt precautions, now
ever, made them pause and rest upon
their oars while yet little way from
their goal.
Only an ominoua silence rewarded
the utmost efforts of their straining
senses; no sound was audible other
than the gentle whine of an INCREASED
block: nothing was visible beyond the
sinister glare of that almost stationary
green lantern.
What Think" Barcus inquired in
a dubious undertone.
mo telling" Alan replied In the
same manner. "All chance"
You've got that gun handy ?"-with
reference to the rife of which they
had. despoiled the victim of the sky's
ill-faith
Here"
"Then-let's go to It! Give way!"
A dozen lusty strokes brought them
alongside the schooner, and as the
dory scraped the waist of the larger
vessel the two young men dropped
oars, rose, and seizing the low gun.
wales, lifted themselves to the deck
Nothing opposed them; the deck was
ignorant of other footsteps than their
own, the schooner as silent as only a
becalmed ship can be.
Without further consultation, Alan
led quickly aft and down the compan
ionway to the cabin, where dim light
burned-a smoky lamp swinging In
gimbals above cluttered table.
OF the two stateroorn doors one dis
closed an empty cabin, the other was
locked.
Trying the handle roughly, Alan
fancied he heard sound within. Paus
ing, he called, with a thrill Of fearful
hope:
Hello, in there"
The respone was cry Of incredulous
delight: "Alan!"
By way of answer Alan hurled him
self bodily against the door. At the
second impact Of shoulders backed by
a hundred and eighty pounds Of solid
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.Nothlng-wlnd too fresh. Make
yourself easy on the soft side of a
plank here. I'll land you q kick in
the stats when SO minded--or when
It's your trick at the wheel"
With a chuckle, Alan obediently
stretched himself out on the deck.
81 say-Law!"
"Well?"
"You seem pretty easy in your mind
about this young woman below. To
me, she's the same that tried to send
me to Davy Jones' locker. How does
she explain her presence aboard?"
Much as surmised." Alan replied.
II fancy they chloroformed her while
she slept In that hotel in Portland.
Whether or no, Rose woke up in a
closed motor car-bound and gagged,
of course-and was brought aboard at
Gloucester about midnight"
Simple when you know how" Bar
Gus commented. "Of course. always
did say that truth was stranger to
fiction. Cuddle down. now, and I'll
talk you insensible."
His accents already merging in with
the swish of the 'longside waves, the
bubbling of the wake, and the many
toned composite voice Of the ship In
being. Inconsistencies like cloud
descended upon Aims overwearied
faculties.
He woke mutinously, with yawn
and a shiver in the gray of furnished
daybreak, to find that fog pressed
heavily upon the face of the waters, a
mist so thick, that from the stern the
waist of the vessel was almost iavis-
ible, the bows completely SO.
Barcus stood over him, at the wheel,
fairly Keeling with WEAKNESS, his eyes
blood-shot, swollen, and half-closed in
face like a mask of fatigue.
Cant keep this up much longer.
he apolcgized thickly; stood it about
as long as can. Take your trick and
give me forty winks.'
Grateful solicitude brought Alan IN
stantly to his side, though he himself
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sumner! A month earlier we'd have
had the life-saving patrol to look to
for protection. But the service is sus-
pended in June and July"
A silence commenced eloquently on
this assertion, broken only when Mr..
Law voiced thought bred of long and
malignant observation of the schoon-
eP's green eye:
I'D give a deal to know who's
aboard that vessel
You don't mean you think your reg
lilar young woman"
Its possible. Judith kidnapped
Rose in Portland. That's not so far
from Gloucester; a motor car could
have caught that schooner before she
sailed to waylay US, this morning. And
what better way to take care of an
able bodied, full-tempered girl you've
kidnapped than to ship her somewhere
by sea, in the care of trustworthy
hellicns?"
Don't ask me-I've done very little
kidnapping for one of my years."
For tuppence," said Mr.. Law, I'D
risk a swim OFF to that boat and see
for myself"
For two million dollars-I would
mott" Barcus affirmed with great de-
cision.
A moment or so later the line of
little flames went out altogether and
unexpectedly; and the owner of the
late Seaventure fancied he could hear,
even at that distance, the hiss OF
~charred and smoldering timbers sucked
under and drowned out.
Exit" he announced plaintively
exit Seavepture" with heroic gesture.
"R. i. p. good little ship"
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the waters-remember freeing an
arm, drawing it back, delivering
blow from his shoulder, with all his
strength. finding himself free. strug-
Cling back to the air.
Then a boathook caught the back of
his shirt and dragged him for some
distance, until two strong hands caught
him beneath the armpits and held his
head above the water.
He looked up witlessly into the face
of Barcus, and, still bewildered, strug-
gled feebly.
The others voice brought him back
to his senses. Easy, old top! Take
it easy! You're all right now-rest a
minute, then help me get you aboard"
He obeyed, controlling his panic as
best he might; and presently, with
considerable assistance from Barcus,
contrived to scramble in over the gun
wales of a boat which proved to be
the stolen lifeboat.
Aside from Barcus and himself 1t
held one other person only-the wom-
an he loved, crumpled up and uncon-
scious in the bow.
He strove to rise and go to her, to
make sure that still she lived. Barcus
restrained and quoted him
There! Easy, l say! She's all
ight-fainted-that's all! She and ]
took the water in practically the same
spot, and luck threw this blessed boat
my way within half dozen strokes.
| No trouble at all-in a manner of
speaking"
But the steamer"
why fret about her? At the pace
she was making she couldn't have
stopped within half a mile. Well be
| all right now-with power to fetch us
| to land"
But the others-Judith!" Alan sat
up and leaned over the gunwale.
searching an oily, leaden expanse spot.
ted only with few splinters and bits
of wreckage. 81 left her out there
nconscious-she'll drown, tell you'll"
"And I'll tell you something!" said
Mr. Barcus severely. You'll lie quiet
and shut up or I'll dent your dome with
the shaft of an oar. Let her drown
and good job, say! Don't you know
the meaning of enough? MercifuI
heavens. man, you're the most insa.
table glutton for punishment ever!"
But Alan wasn't listening. His face
was as lightless as the waters that
swan beneath his lack-iuster gaze
4
numbed even the sense of relief, OF
deliverance, that penetrated his being
like shock Of mortal pain.
Dead! Judith dead! Back there, In
the fog and the cold dead By
his hand!
CTO BE CONTINUED
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flesh and determination, the lock splin-
tered away from it's socket, the door
flew open with bang-and Alan into
the room with cry: "Rose!"
His sweetheart met him halfway,
her arms uplifted, her countenance
TRANSPORTED
And Mr.. Barcus turned and slowly
assembled the companionway. his nose
wrinkled with misgivirgs.
"Blest If 1 know how he thinks he
can tell 'em apart" he remarked "Not
that blame him for taking chance;
it wouldn't pain me any to find out
I'd kissed the wrong girl by mistake
not, that is, unless she didn't care for
my technique.
"In that case,' he allowed, 81 guess
the sequel would be apt to prove toll
cradle agonizing!"
Some ten minutes later a hail from
the deck broke the embrace OF the
lovers:
Below there! l say-Law!-wind
a-coming!"
Rlgnt-O! han minute!
But that stipulated delay was sew
eral times multiplied before Alan
showed up on deck to find Barcus
bending a laborioss back to the cap
stan.
Lend a hand, can't you?" Barcus
complained, blowing heavily. Il didn't
interrupt your amours just to get ali
audience. The sooner we get this
anchor in"
Alan checked him with a hand IN
his arm Whats that?" he demanded
in a tone tense with apprehension.
The muffied running of heavy-duty
marine motor drifted down on the
wings of the sluggish wind.
Don't ask me-I'm afraid to guess!"
But they couldn't possibly"
"Since when did you set up to be
Judge of possibilities? Nothing prob
able ever happened to you in all your
for mel know there are at least two
| life-saving stations on Nauset, both
with modern equipment-motor life
boats and all; and nothing will ever
persuade me that pack of wolves
would stick at breaking in and confis.
eating one of the same. It's as likely
as not-only more so. Our present
| business is to get the HI out of here
and not advertise our exit, either
Take that port light in and dowse it.
while l do the same by the starboard
Then duck below, warn your Dulcinea
and put out the cabin lamp. That way
III this blackness and our bull-luck
only holds-we may manage an eva
| sion!"
There followed an exceedingly busy
! quarter of an hour for two constrained
in pitch darkness to grope their way
about the decks and familiarize them
! selves with the idiosyncrasies of q
strange two-master. Nevertheless, the
end of that period found the schoone,
with canvas full and sheets taut q
good easterly breeze abeam, swiftly
weaving wake southwards- light
on Monomoy point watching her curl
ously from over the starboard beam
Hear anything more of that powe,
boat?" Alan asked, joining Barcus b.
the wheel.
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was sluggish and stiff and sore in all
his limbs.
You're brick!" he protested. Why
didn't you call me sooner?"
mo good; / knew the way-you
didn't. That is, did until this ac-
cursed fog closed down couple of
hours ago. Now-God knows where
we are-by my reckoning, somewhere
in Nantucket sound, west Of Mono
moy."
Grasping a small brass handle
affixed to the wheel box, he jerked it
sharply three times, and the automatic
horn blared raucously threefold re-
spouse up forward.
Keep that going" he begged,
three blasts In a row and minute
interval-and If the devil takes care
of his own we may possibly escape be-
ing run down"
With sigh. relinquishing the wheel,
he collapsed upon the deck and was
almost instantly asleep
The wind had fallen until barely
enough air stirred to keep way on the
vessel; she moved in silence, a spec
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est; the nead was woman s, the lace
turned toward him, .the face of Rose.
He gasped wildly: Keep cool! Don't
struggle! Put one hand on my shout
der and"
What happened thee was never quite
clear to him; he only knew that he
was forced to fight for his very life
that the woman, as soon as he came
within reach, flung herself upon him
like some maddened animal, clutching
his throat, winding her limbs round
his, dragging him down and down.
Primitive instinct alone saved him.
He renee bered later, most vaguely,
the elimination Of that duel beneath
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-01
When Tailor Lost Customer.

Biggs, previously comparatively
poor man, had come into a big for,
tune, so he set about doing things in
grand style. Ordering some clothes
from his tailor, he told him he would
send round his coachman to be meas
ured for livery.
The tailor scented good BUSINESS
and, thinking his customer would not
be proof against fiattery, he said:
Don't you think, sir, it would be
nice to have your crest stamped on
your coachman's buttons?"
Crest" roared the indignant Mr.
Biggs. What do l or my servants
want with crests? Dye take us for a
family Of cockatoos?"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-01
CHAPTER XIV.
a Double Escape.

On Nauset Beach, in the shank OF a
midsummer night, two men sprawled
on the sands, some distance back from
The water, and listened to the heavy
dumping OF their overtaxed hearts,
and painted.
Now and again one would lift his
head and stare out over the black face
Of the waters at little line of red
dish flames about a mile off shore, all
that remained to witness to the fact
that. an hour since, these two had
been In command of as trim small
schooner as ever ventured the coast
wise trip from Portland to New York.
As far out again shone the star
board light Of a becalmed schooner,
whose people had been directly respon-
sible for the disaster which had over
,aken the smaller vessel. =.
In the course of time, beginning to
breathe with more case, one OF the
Two maroened gentlemen said:
What / can't understand-anyway
is why these damned thugs out there
thought we'd be asses enough to stay
aboard the Seaventure and get burned
up
The other replied: did they?"
Looks that way-doesn't It? If
they didn't, why were we permitted
20 swim ashore at our elegant leisure?
There was nothing to prevent their
rowing round to cut us off,
Maybe they did, at that, and missed
US. Mr.. Law-and-Order!"
But
We were a wee mite excited you've
got to admit. It's just possible we
, didn't hear the noise of their oars.
And it's black enough for them to
have overlooked us. A mans head
in the water isn't really conspic-
uous object on a dark night
Tell me, Barcus, what's the near
est symptom of civilization"
Chatham village" said Mr.. Barcus,
six miles to the moth ards, and cut off
ay an inlet mile or SO wide at that
Mr.. Law groaned soulfully.
Then there's the lighthouse on
Monomoy point" Mr.. Barcus pursued,
three miles to the south"
Mr.. Law said nothing whatever to
this
OF course" his companion reflected
rnorosely, this had to happen in mid
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-01
Not a Misderneanor.

Colonel Carter had been playing golf
for but three months. Therefore, when
the secretary of the club saw the col
onel playing his ball several feet in
front of the tee disks during tourna-
ment he thought the veteran soldier
had forgotten the rules.
Colonel! COLONEL" he exclaimed.
you must play from behind the ties
disks,"
The colonel's face turned red, but
he preserved his dignity.
Its none of your business. sah," he
answered as calmly as possible, ''but
this is my third stroke!"-Collier's
Weekly.
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righ;, 1914, By Louis Joseph Vance
SYNOPSIS.

HEARTS-Instalment =. -. :. HAD
The OF Hearts is the death sign" used
by Seneca Urine In private war of VEN
seance which. through his daughter. Jul
dith, woman Of violent and criminal
temper and questionable sanity, he wages
against Alan Law, whose father (now
dead) Urine held responsible for the ac-
cident which made him helpless cripple.
Rose. Judith's twin and double. learning
ot her sisters compaign against Alan,
Under dramatic circumstances Alan saves
judith's life and so wins her love: but
failure to shake his constancy to Rose
she contrives to burn a schooner in which
Alan is making a coastwise cruise to
New York. Narrowing him together with
Barcus. owner of the schooner. on an
island south Of Cape Cod.
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trail ship upon a spectral sea Of long.
oily swells and the complexion of lead.
Hither and yon in the obscurity, fog
signals Of other shipping sounded a
concert of discordance-the man
power horn Of catboat crying the
warning back to the deep-throated
whistle of coastwise steamship and
the impairment drumming of a motor
boats exhaust with the muller cut
out.
This last boxed the compass, sound
ing now near. now far, though the COM
plants of other shipping diminished
in volume and died away in the dis
lance, giving place to others still, the
plutter-plutter of that motor was never
altogether lost; If at times it faded.
1t seemed certain always to return in
even louder volume.
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Vera Cruz in the Sixteenth centur,

VcTd NrU@ TIT tIEc S'NtCS'tH ~cHtUTJ.
Robert Thomson. merchant, visited
Vera Cruz in 1866. 1t had then not
more than three hundred households,
This towne," he wrote, lis subjec;
to great sickness. and in my time
many of the Mariners and officers oil
the ships did die with those diseases,
there accustomed, and especially
those that were not used to the coun.
trey, nor know the danger thereof,
but would commonly go in the Sunne
in the heat of the day, and cd eat
fruit of the countrey with much dis
order. Whereupon they were
cast into burning ague. Of the which
few escaped"
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Docs Suicide After Rescue.

What was apparently c determined
attempt at suicide by an Airedale ter
rier was witnessed by large number
of visitors at Bray, County Dublir.
The animal jumped of the Rcsth
pier of the harbor into the sea and
was sinking when some fishermen res.
cued it.
When they let 1t go the terrier made
a dash for the other pier. jumped into
the sea, and was drowned.
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Substitution.

Deacon Jones-Do you keep tn
Sabbath, sir?
Druggist Blinks-No, no, sir, but
have something just as good.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1915-01-01

Now that the Observation-Disclosures
Is dying out, let's quit talking about Il
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the sudden roar of a steamship fog
almost to emanate from the forepart
of the schooner herself.
AS it was answered by shrill and
hoarse cries of terror or of warning
from a dozen threats, Alan found him
self released. his captors leaping for
their lives to the taffrail.
He caught an instantaneous glimpse
of the knife-like bow Of great steam
er towering above the two-master-
sweeping toward it at a speed which
raised smart jet of white under the
cutwater.
Someone aboard the schooner. with
the voice Of stentor, beloved a ter
rified appeal:
stop your engines! Shut of your
propeller! Stop your"
Then, like the wrath of God. the
steamship overwhelmed the lesser
ship; its bow seemed to slice through
the schooner as knife through
cheese. And the two halves were fairly
driven under water by the frightful
force of the blow.
Thunders deafening him. Alan was
hurled bodily through the air fully
twenty feet.
When he came up he struck out at
random, blindly tormented by the
vision Of Rose caught in the suck Of
that gigantic wheel, drawn under,
crushed and mangled by the propeller
of the vast black hulk whose flank was
sliding past, like the face of cliff,
ten yards behind his shoulders.
Aware of several dark objects dot
ting the surface within a radius Of
several yards. he swan for the near
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-11-28

'reot will be from fifty to sixty feet
wide, perfectly clean. and generally
barren. necessarily SO when 10
section OF the excellent govern .ri
road Atlantic
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-11-28

% woman evolving % meal. but there
WIN bc no chimney I'm the roof, which
'Nplhln9 - good many Things, aud
why the unsolEonod visitor presently
makes Tor the street IN average
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1915-11-28
BUILDING BLOCKS

Mind Builder and all
the well-known A h G
Blocks are here -- priced
up from ,.,.,..... 1OC
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CIIINAWAR

OF course we always have plenty
Of Chnaware. Gift pieces as well as
Dinner Sets in great varieties. Let us
solve your China gift problem.
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AROUT LAY-AWAYS

Already q hundred different away
deposit
away any specified
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guests any day. A warm welcome awaits YOU
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ALL That deIght the hearts Of the little folks and
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ELECTRIC LAMPS.
DRUMS

sheep and Calfskin-
covered Drums - are
priced from 25c to $3.50
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MUSICAL TOYS

p ian os. Revolving
Christmas Tree Stands,
Horns and dozens Of
o t her noisemakers-
priced from 10c to S35
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-03-19
CATARRH GERMS
EASILY KILLED
Only Way To Cure This Disease Ii
To Destroy Its Cause.
by N SueciaIist.


III you have catarrh and want to
get rid of IL you must kill the germs
which cause catarrh. Stomach
dosing. ointments. sprays, creams.
douches. etc. fail because they over
look this fact. They all help by
giving temporary relief but they do
not reach the germ life that has
found lodgment in your head, nose,
throat, and could not destroy 1t IL
they did.
/ The best known way of destroy
ing the dangerous germs of Ca
tarrh and consequently ending the
disease itself. is to breathe into the
throat the pleasant, penetrating
air of Hyomci pronounced Hight o.
mel. Hyomei is made from purest
oil of Eucalyptus combined with
other powerful, healing, antiseptic
and germicidal ingredients. You
breathe 1t through little pocket
inhaler which Crown Drug Co. and
other leading druggists in Tacoma
and vicinity are furnishing with
every complete treatment sold. Ev-
cry time you inhale the sweetP fra
grant air of Hyomei through this
little device you are drawing into
your swollen, inflamed, germ laden
membranes a medicated air which
will not only reduce all the swell
ing and inflammation and open
your clogged nose and stopped-up
air passages, but will absolutely
and positively destroy every trace
OF Catarrh germ life 1t reaches.
Druggists are so sure of the blessed
lasting relief that Hyomei brings
to catarrh sufferers that they sell
IL invariably on the positive guar
antee that money paid will be re-
funded IL successful results are not
secured from its use. Get a Hyo-
mel outfit from your druggist to-
day and begin at once to drive this
dangerous and disgusting disease
from your system forever.
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. PHOTOPLAY HOUSES .
Takes Death Ride" 10 Save
Imperiled Lover" In Movie

had found evidence OF my
sweetheart's innocence just a few
hours before he was to have been
hanged -"
Miss Marie Walcamp was speak
ing OF one of her movie adven-
lures, let 1t be hurriediy explain
ed. She is leading lady with the
101 Bison Film company, and
this particular sweetheart" was
but one of the many in whose
lives, filmwise. she has become
entangled for better or for worse.
1T happened In the production
The Eleventh Hour and my
friends say It was one of the most
dangerous undertakings ever
engaged in" continued Miss Wal
camp.
unable to reach in any other
way the sweetheart, whose inno-
cence ! had discovered, l was to
take trip down a lumber flume
on a few planks clamped togeth-
err. The water along there runs
like mill-race, about a mile a
minute, down a steep mountain
slope. The flume makes some
sharp curves. shooting along an
elevated sluiceway across canons
two to three hundred feet deep.
''Lumbermen have told me
that several men have lost their
lives doing what | did that day.
II rode Is miles in actually less
than is minutes. At the sharp
curves where my improvised raft
slithered hard against the flume,
working uptoward the outer edge,
my heart went into my throat
several times, especially when the
curves came over great chasms.
But / was going too fast to spec
ulate much about the dangers.
Il don't recall ever having had
a more thrilling experience in my
life.
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IA j. 81 Utah
Professors
Quit Faculty

SALT LAKE CITY. March IS.
Fourteen professors In the
state university have resigned In
a body as protest against the
recent dismissal Of four other
professors.
The four were members of the
English faculty. They also hap
pened to be -Mormons. The
IA who late yesterday stepped ont
declare that religious antagonism
led to the dropping of the quar-
tet, and not the alleged insubor-
dination charged by the univor-
sity authorities.
The action OF the educators has
brought an acute situation
throughout the state. Mormon
and anti-Mormon factions both
being greatly aroused.