Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1920-03-19

she made the discovery.
4 did not think about the car
tridges," she cried. II heard you were
10 danger and seized 1t and came 60
you. What shall We do? | ana going
to Tie with YOU"
We are not going 10 die" he an
sWered. But he felt trickle of blood
III his eyes. He pulled himself to-
gether TO face the situation. thinking
with all the concentration or which
his mind was capable.
He heard the sails being run up. AID
the ereak of the cordage in the wind
Then the schooner, grinding her
course through the drift ice. began 10
roll and pitch as the force OF the gulf
current struck her. And through the
portfolios Hilary saw the lights OF 81
Boniface reel into the enwrapping fog
and vanish
With Madeleines arm about him he
thought with desperate concentration
Doubtless the ruffians had gone To as.
Slsi Dupont in taking the schooner on;
into midStream. confident that their
victim was at their mercy. Once the
vessel had passed the dangerous Ice
and deadly sunken rocks Dupont
alone could keep her on her course.
And Dupont had planned his death.
He remembered the hate on the old
mans face but he could not imagine
the cause of It. for he did not connect
ii with the story about Marie.
They woulG return, they would dis
cover that The revolver was useless
his re was worth about ten minutes
purchase, and of Medicines fate he
dared mol think. lie must fight for
her and live for her He got his shak-
ing limbs under concroI.
I'm all right" he whispered i've
got my plan now. Keep behind me
and be ready TO help. The door
locked SUPPOSE
quick attempt TO open Il showed
him that Ii was But he had
chance. IL he could break down the
door for the sound might pass uli-
heard In the gale, with the crashing
Of the ice against ;Se sides Of sl,e
schooner, enahlk:g MIN to pass inio
the hold unseen in the darkness.
lie hurled himself against the cabin
door, fists. shoulders, body. with every
muscle set tense. II broke upon lis
hinges. and Hilary fen, sprawling into
the passage between the plles Of
sucked lumber. which rose to a height
of twenty feet on either side of him
running to within few feet of the
cabin and the deck ladder
He crouched there for a few sec,
onds, hearing Madeleine behind him
and looked upward. The wind was
roaring through the rigging with a
noise far louder than thar made ny the
falling door No one had heard the
crash. Above him swung the great
mainsaii. obscufing the gbbous N on
that scurred like pale gaost among ~
drifting clouds, haload In the fog Hill
airy could just discern the hazy fig
uros of three men. hard a. work 10
gain the middle channel, and The lam
tern that hung from the mast above,
faintly Illuminating them.
He had seen, but had not conscious
~ observed, iii the remembrance
cante TO him then. that pile OF lum-
hert placed in the ship but not yet Sc
cureo lay about the center of the
open space IN front Of the cabin. II
could not shift with the rolling Of
the schooner, so as - destroy her equi-
Ibrlum. on account of the stacks on
u .s.,aff.tNzf 49, T.,t.t
load Of logs which had beer dropped
there from the end Of the flame. Hill
airy raised two IN his arms and ear
ried them In front Of the broken door.
Ii was impossible 10 make his voice
heard. for the ship was staggering
through he clashing ice foes with a
noise like that of artillery. but Made
,leine saw his purpose. and in an ~
slant was at work helping him They
began swiftly building q barricade /;
and, as Madeleine deposited her logs
by the side Of Hilary's, Hilary wedged
the ends against the chained stacks on
either side, so that the whole would
form an lmmoyable barrier He toiled
furiously, for their scanty time was
precious beyond value, Soon Made
leine was behind the barricade adj
justing the logs that Hilary brought
and 1t stood the height Of his waist
II was improbable that either Du-
pont. Pierre or Leblanc carried re-
voIver; but. even IL they did, the bar
ricade was bullet-prOof. Hilary for
got his aching head the retehlng nau-
sea. The barrier was shouider-high.
He clambered behind II and took his
station there just as the grinding of
the foes ceased. and the schooner
caught the clear water.
A ray OF moonlight, struggling
through the fog, disclosed old Dupont
at the wheel above the poop, and the
great mainsail sweeping over it-end
two forms that crept along the pas
sage between the lumber piles. They
started back in sudden CONSERVATION
at the sight Of the unexpected barri-
cade. and Hilary's club. aimed at
Pierre's head, descended upon the out
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