Evening star., 1915-02-28

sufficient of woman to play part when it suited her.
By the time the two had joined Ingersoll they
boy and girl again, and the curtain, lifted for in
slant tragedy had fallen
Tolemache, searching for some commonplace
mark to relieve the tension of his feelings noticed
the drift of smoke curling from cottage chimney.
@What has happened to the wind?" he said.
at has veered to the southeast Monsieur answered
Peridot.
Il thought something of the sort had taken place.
but SO busy that did pay any heed, said In
gersol. Then his forehead wrinkled ref1ectively
Southeast from southwest he muttered @On ris-
ing tide that change should kick up nasty Is
the return trip quite SAFE Perdot?'
@The will be trihe worse, Monsieur; but we'll
travel on keel
"And be swept by an occasional wave from stem to
stern?"
@I've heard of such things grinned Peridot
@And very uncomfortable things they too.
Yvonne, you must decide. Shall we take the rough
passage, or hire the hotel auto?'
Yvonne rounded her eyes at her father and stepped
board the Hirondelle.
He laughed 3That settles it" he cried @Of Chris
tian souls have been wrecked shore than
were lost at sea- But l you my merry adven-
turess Before half hour has passed you may be
ready to cry with honest old Gonzao in The Tenn
pest, Now would give thousand urongs of sea for
of barren ground long heath brown furze
any thing obviously having the of Fnstere in his
mind
THE behavior of the maritime folk of lie Pou1du
showed that there was an element of risk in the
voyage. Knots of fishermen watched Peridots prepara-
tions with professional eye and spat approval when
he cast loose small jibsail few carried interest
far that they climbed the seaward cliff to watch the
boats progress the Basse Persac and Basse
Hiss the two nearest shadows the homeward
line across the Anse du Pouldu.
The HirOndele passed the bar of the Iaita quickly
and safely. that would have smothered her in
churning water broke within boats length. After
that escape she made drier passage than her
pants expected. She abreast of Douelan, and
Yvonne listening to the thunder of the Atlantic
the black reef that stretches from Kerogal Mill to
Les Cochons de Beg Morg while her eyes were watch
ing the changing bearings of the church spires of Moelan
and Clohars when shout from Perdot recalled her
wandering thoughts
4There's steam yacht out there making heavy
weather, he said.
Ingersol had evidently noted the other vessel al
ready, because he had gone into the cabn-not the
cubbyhole of sardine boat, but the hold converted
into saloon, fitted with table screwed to the deck,
and four comfortable bunks-and reappeared with
pair of binoculars. From that moment all eyes
fixed on the newcomer
At guess she might be coming from Brest to Lorent
because it safe to that her Captain not
a fool, and he must have started the days run before
the change of wind. 1t must be remembered that the
very conditions that helped the fve-ton Hirondele
the possible for the sixty seventy-ton
stranger, hard driven into head whipped by
fierce wind She had shaped a outside L'Isle
Verte and was well clear of the Ar Gazek shallow when
first sighted by those board the Hirondelle. The
tidal stream running strongly there, and Yvonne
with difficulty repressed cry of disrnay when the
yachts bare masts and white funnel vanished COM
petey in a cloud of spray.
@If that fellow has any sense he'll turn while he