Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-11-14
For forty E. Pnkhs remedy
is E. LYNN

hands. He thought he had escaped de-
lection until with an appalling abrupt
ness, Gloria Stafford-thohgh he did not
know her name-charged him with the
murder and declared that she had seen
him commit it before her very eyes
He had not been quite crazy enough
or quite wise enough TO kill her then
and there when she was alone and at
his mercy. He thought to repear the
consequences of the delay by shooting
her down now that she reappeared with
an armed force at her back. So he
fired at Gloria where she stood in front
of the pilot house demanding his sur
render.
They told Gloria afterwards she was
brave as a veteran and faced the as
sassin coolly. But she told the truth
when she said that she was paralyzed
with fear, SO frightened that she could
not even show her fright.
When the muzzle of Trask's rifle spat
at her, she heard the bullet Zing past
her ear. She was already wondering
whether she were dead or alive, whether
the next one would strike where she
heard the first one thwack. The pilot
grunted and mumbled He got met
She forgot Trask and whirled round
to see the pilot fall across his own
wheel. The yacht wavered and swerved
in its course Gloria was the nearest
to the pilot house. She had been n
pupil of the pilot only a few minutes
before. She ran to him, lifted him aside
and seized the wheel by its projecting
spokes, just in time to keep the yacht
from crashing into the barge at full
speed. She made a sharp turn, the
yacht swerved and ground along the
side of the barge. Gloria meanwhile
was alarmed more for the life of the
pilot than her own. She began to call
stephen, Doctor Royce"
But Doctor Royce was. too busy to
hear her call. His immediate interest
was not in a wounded man, but in
wounding a man. When he saw that
Trask was aiming his rifle at Gloria
again, his whole being thrilled with a
ferocity unknown to him before. To
save Gloria from being hurt he would
have massacred a hundred Trasks.
Trask was heavy and his agony
seemed to increase upon him when
the desperate necessity of SWIM
ming was over. He tainted the moment
his dripping body was stretched out
and DIR. Royce had. as it were, to save
his life twice, first to bring him back
from the swoon of pain, and then to
bring him back from the humiliation
of his shattered machinery.
Meanwhile, Jed was locked i'm a fero-
cious wrestle with the Captain of j.
Pierponts yacht, who called the engi-
neer to his aid. As the engineer told
Pierpont 81 had to knock him senseless
before 1 could knock any sense into
him.
And now Nell Trask. who had turned
from one battle to another, tearing now
at Royce and now at the captain, recov-
cred from the stupor with which she
had watched her fathers disaster. and
leaping over the yacht, knelt by him
calling to him with wild appeals and
threatening Royce as his slayer.
Gloria came running down from the
upper deck and stood gazing at the re-
suit of her work with utter dismay
Trask was crushed and perhaps killed
Jed was unconscious, and Nell seemed
to have gone out of her mind.
Gloria felt that her head was covered
with blood guilt. The sobs of Nell
were heart-breaking. Gloria forgot all
her resenJments against Nell and her
father. She forgot that Nell had kept
her prisoner. She saw only that Nell
was a motherless daughter who saw
her father dying
She caught the girl in her arms, held
her i'm spite of her resistance, murmur-
ing: Forgive me, you poor child! It's
all my fault, but we won't let your faith
err die. Dr. Royce is a splendid physi-
clan. He saved my life He will save
your fathers. You can trust him.
Nell also forgot all other emotions in
that one necessity for hope. She turned
eyes Of prayer on DR.. Royce and beat
him on the shoulder with imploring