Connecticut western news., 1920-08-19
NHE keen eyes of Wolf Larsen, master of the sealing schooner

Ghost, bound for Japanese Doaching grounds, spotted the bobbing Aead of Humphrey Van Weyden amid the waves of San Francisco bay, into whose waters Humphrey had been thrown as a result of a shipwreck. A few moments more and Humphrey was aboard the Ghost.
 Rescued, he faced his rescuer with thanks and request to be put ashore. The skipper eyed him curious1y.
 ~What do you do for livingT" he asked.
 TI am a gentleman" Humphrey stammered.
 ]Who feeds youY'
 T have an income"
 Wolf Larsen'S lips curled in a sheer. ''You stand on dead mems legs. You couldn't walk alone between two sun- rises and hustle the meat fer youY Belly for three meals. You stay hess &s cabin boy for the good of your soul. yE1l make man of you"
 Instant rebellion leaped into Hum phrey'ss eyes. Before he could protest Hhere came a sudden interruption-a letamor from the real cabin boy, a Agreat husky youth who stood by. Wolf Larsen turned and crashed his fist into the boys stomach. Crumpled like a wet rag around a stick. the lad col Eapsed into heap on the deck.
 Well" said Wolf Larsen meaningly to Humphrey, 'have you made up your .mfnd?"
 The spark of manhood in Humphrey dfed out.
 "Yes," he replied weakly.
 "Say Yes, sirp" Yes sir"
 And thus Humphrey passed Into the servitude of Wolf Larsen, the Sea Wolf His blinking eyes, half reveal ang and half concealing his terror, sur lgeyed his master and thus appraised him: Massive of build, like a huge gorilla with a strength, savage and 9erocious features of no evil stamp i; eyes of baffing protean gray, some dimes as chill as an Arctic landscape. sometimes all aglow with love-lights- 1ntense, masculine and compelling (which at the same time fascinate and Nominate women until they surrender 2n a gladnesS of joy and of relief and sacrifice"
 His creed, the mighty will which en- gfned Wolf Larsen, was short
 Life is a mess," he declared. ''The bfg eat the little that they may con- dnue to move; the strong eat the weak that they may retain their strength. The lucky eat the most and move the longest, that is all."
 His company on shipboard: seamen podden and sullen by drink, more ani- nal than human group of seal hunt gs. wild reckless nomads, ignorant of m ordered world-all slaves in body md spirit to the Sea Wolf.
 Yet there was a gentle side to Wolf larsen. He was no ignorant cave man. Ie could discuss literature with Hump" roll over his lips the poetic Iories of Shelley and Browning, argue he sciences with amazing f1uency and |e disarmingly charming at times.
 As the days rolled on and murderous narrels made the hours hideous humphreys backbone gradually stiff aed He dreamed of killing the Sea yolf. But Larsen fascinated him and ke some splendid animal, some dan srous beast, held him in spell. He new the world should be rid of such monster, yet Larsen's eyes compelled pedience.
 Day by day, with not gleam of gra' lousness to break the orgy of brutish.
 HS this tragic drama went on. Hum ilrey despaired of even a gleam sa
 nshine. Suddenly fate intervensd
 the person of Maude Brewster.
 Like Humphrey, she came ts -
 lost from the sea, ssvse AsmT
 cecked liner. Like Humphrey, sAA