The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-12

humphrey lung himself on the
| monster to be tossed aside like chip
He rushed again, drawing his knife,
plunging the blade into the Sea VOLTS
shoulder. Larsen staggered back and
Maude seized Humphrey begging him
not to kill Suddenly the Wolf col
/ lapsed, not from his wound but as if
from some uncanny spell that para.
lyzed him. The giant was helpless
| Humphrey carried him to his berth
and realized that opportunity for es.
cape was at hand.
Maude and he put off in small boat
hoping that they might make Japan,
900 miles away, but the winds and
creeping drift of the Pacific inter.
vened and finally the grim adventure
ended for time on a little Arctic
island. Here they prepared to remain
for the winter.
Suddenly one morning, weeks after.
Humphrey saw on the beach the
| ly familiar 1t could not be-yes it
was-the Ghost. The blood chilled
| in his veins. Wild thoughts of flight
or the sudden ending of both their
lives entered his mind. Then a won
dering cunning succeeded such fears
He would kill Wolf Larsen, kill him
as he slept, for all on board were
doubtless sleeping. With knife and
gun he climbed to the deck He saw
no one. Was the ship deserted after
| all?
! But as he rounded the poop there
burst on his gaze the Sea Wolf. Hum
phrey raised his gun; the trigger
clicked sharply. Then silence.
why don't you shoot" coolly re-.
marked the Wolf.
Humphrey could not speak.
/ Hump" said the Sea Wolf slowly,
you can't do it. And after all l have
taught you. You know that l would
kill an unarmed man as readily as l
would smoke cigar. Bah. l had ex-
pected the better things of you,
Hump
Humphrey slowly lowered the gun.
| The Ghosts presence was explained
calmly by the Sea Wolf. He was
caught in a net he had set for his
hated brother, Death" Larsen, his
crew were taken away and he was left
alone. Pacific storms did the rest.
A strange WEAKNESS in the Sea
VOLTS bearing, a hesitant, pre-occu-
pied air about him puzzled Humphrey.
A few days later, he again summoned
| courage to put him out of the way.
But this time he saw Wolf Larsen
slowly making his way down the deck,
his quivering finger tips cropping for
the hand rails.
| Wolf Larsen was blind. No need to
kill him.
Maude and Humphrey determined
to escape by repairing the Ghost, but
the Sea Wolf willed otherwise. Blind
and helpless as he was, he craftily
contrived to ruin Humphreys work
determined they should all die togeth.
er. so his grim revenge would be
complete. Fiendish cunning and in.
stinct still remained.
A final reckoning was to come
Scoring precautiOn because he felt
the Sea Wolf physically powerless
from the suspected pressure of a tn
NOR on the brain, Humphrey ventured
too near one day. Suddenly the Sea
VOLTS stupor passed. The steel-like
fingers gripped Humphreys throat
The trap had sprung.
Maude leaped into action, tearing al
Larsen's hands. But for once the Sea
VOLTS tremendous will could not spur
his weakened body. His fingers
twitched and then relapsed and Hum
phrey was released.
That was the last play of the
Wolf" said Larsen with his twisted
smile. I'D like to have done for yol
first, Hump. I thought I had thai
much left in me-
And so Wolf Larsen faded into I'm
consciousness, pitiful ending fol
this grim sea murderer who pictured
himself roaring to death in a blaze
of tumult and evil splendor
Soon the restored Ghost embraced
the waves again, freighted with hap
piness. Then trail of smoke on the
horizon, a rescue and the lovers kis:
as the cutter went dancing over the
waves on the long road home
! Copyright, 1919, by the Post Publish
: ing Co. (The Boston PosD. All rights
reserved. Condensed from The Sc,
Wolf by Jack London. Copyright
1904 by the Macmillan Company. Cset
by permission of author and publisher
published by special arrangement
with the Mcclure Newspaper Syndicate
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