Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-01-16

-An0 leaned SO CiOSc W e''''e o~
touched his breast. ard sad:
. "It will be best-best for everything
.-everybody--if you can innience
father to stay at Fort Churchill
She did not walt Tor HIM to reply
but hurried toward her ROOM For
moment Philip stared after her IN
amazement. Then he tooN Il step as
IL to follow her. TO call her pack'
The impulse left him as quickly as II
came. and he rejoined Brsnaw and
the factor.
He looked at his watch. 1t was
seven o'clock. At half-past seven ne
shook hands with the two men. lighted
"a fresh cigar, and passed out into the
night. 1t was early for his meeting
with Pierre and Jeanne, but he went
down to the shore and walked slowly
in the direction Of the cliff. He was
still an hour early when he arrived
at the great rock. and sat down, with
his face turned to the sea.
II was q white. radiant night, such
as he had seen in the tropics. only
here, in the north. his vision reached
to greater distances. Churchill lay
lifeless in its pool Of light; the ship
hung like black silhouette in the dis
tance with a cloud Of jet.black smoke
rising straight up from its tunnels. ana
spreading out high up against the
sky, a huge ebon monster that cast
it's shadow for half a mile over the
BAY. The shadow held Phi''n's ewes,
Now 1t was like a gigantic sa"e now
out in the form OF a great 'N"oateninC
hand as thouph somewhere in the
mystery OF the north it sou"ht
like a monster heast--now " reached
spir,t.v'c.,rn "a roter' as 'tse''
Then the smell ~ " Voc hroher
From the end Of the shadow vrh'"N
reached almost to the base oT The cl'fT
on which Philip sat the-e came
sound. II was a clear me'a'fc sound
that left the vibration of steel IN the
air and Ph'lip leaned over the edge OF
the rock. Below him the shadow was
broken into a pool OF rippling star
light. He heard the faint dip OF pad
dies and suddenly a canoe shot from
the shadow out into the clear light of
the moon and stars.
It was a large canoe. In it he could
make out four figures. Three OF them
were padding: the fourth sat notion
less In the bow. They passed under
him swiftly, guiding their canoe so
that It was soon hidden in the shelter
Of the cliff. By the faint reflections
cast by the disturbed water. Philip
saw that the occupants Of the canoe
had made an effort to conceal them
selves by following the course Of the
dense shadow. Only the chance sound
had led him to observe them.
Under ordinary circumstances the
passing Of a strange canoe at night
would have had no significance for
him. But at the present time It trou-
pled him. The manner Of its approach
through the shadow, the strange quiet
of its occupants, the stealth with which
they had shot the canoe under the cliff
were all unusual. Could the incident
have szything to do with Jeanne and
Pierre?
He waited until he heard the tiny
bell in his watch tinltle the half'hour
and then he set out slowly over the
smoonlit rocks to the north. Jeanne
and Pierre would surely come from,
THAT direction. II was impossible tc
miss them He walked without sounC
in his moccasins, keeping close TO this
cliff so that he could look out over tho
bay. Two or three hundred yard
beyond the big rock the sea-wal
swung in sharply, disclosing the oper
water, like a still, silvery sheet, for &
mile or more. Philip scanned it fol
the canoe, but as far as he could SEE
there was not shadow.
For a quarter of a mile he walked
over the rocks. then returned. 1t wa:
- O'Clock. The moment had arrivet
Z for the appearance of Jeanne anc
! Pierre. He resumed his patrol OF tho
. cIiff. and with each moment his nerv
I. o,,sness increased. What II Jeanne
rallied him? What if she did not come
m the rock? The mere thought made
h,s heart sink with a sudden painful
throb. Until now the fear that Jeanne
might disappont him, that she might
not Keep the tryst, had not entered
his head. His faith in this girl. whom
he had seen but twice, was supreme.
}. A second and a. third time he pa
trolied the quarter mile of cliff. Again
ma watch tinkled the halr-hour and he
nav that the last minutes Of the ap-
6oin,sd time had come.
rho third and last time he went be-
sona the quarter-mile limit, searching
q ~ white distances beyond. A low
nrll6 was rising from the bay; 1t