New Britain herald., 1921-08-19
pletely clouded by the frozen sleet

pletely clouded by the frozen sleet Wal, Cap'n Hand, how goes the | battle?' asked the storekeeper. How does it seem to be a millionaire, or 1 1hereabout?"
 Cap'n Jonah took a huge pinch of snuff. ''Whatever.'' he almost groaned.
 Tt ain't no laughin' matter, MT. Silt, this here tryin' to make folks think you air something you ain't. 1 'Sure-ly,' interposed Cap'n Abe, :" 'taint no trick to fool Sarah and Orrin Petty. They air only too will in to fool themselves. If you had a hundred thousau' dollars" 1 I'd give half of it to get out O. the mess I'm in,' snapped Cap'n Jonah. You don't know what it means, MT. Silt, to be foolin' your friends, as we'll as those you don't keer a jasper for. This foolin' Pear ly an young Helmford an even Cap'n Beecher and Miss Sue and the doc an all, does go against the grain. l If them bonds ad sheer certificates I showed that half-baked boy of Sarah Petty's was real instead of phony, and I was rich stead of scurcely havin' | a cent to bless myself with, I'd be | the happiest man alive, I do guess. But as 'tS-" 1 He spoke earnestly, and he meant it, did Cap'n Jonah. He was never cut out for deceitful man, and the strain of the hateful situation was l telling on him.
 l Cap'n Abe was called to the rear premises before he could make reply to the troubled captain. The latter l drifted back into the radiance of l the stoves warmth.
 l Then out of the park pocket be- I tween soap boxes and sugar barrels at the end of the counter rose up a figure, the presence of which l neither of the old men suspected. There was a door into the side hall of Cap'n Abe's house right there. The eavesdropper opened this soft ly and passed through unobserved. He was Tom Petty.
 'Liphalet Truitt reached the shack
 of Suz Montevedo, the Portuguese
 fisherman, and learned from him that
 Miss Sue had been there for more
 than an hour. She had tidied up the shack, cooked some food for the man, and left more, with a cooling drink land the doctors medicine within his
 reach. She had promised ito come lagain on the morrow.
 How long since Miss Sue left here,
 Suz?" demanded 'Liphalet. Seems like I ought to've met her."
 She be gone twenty minutes-not
 more."
 Twenty minutes? Nonsense!" eaculated 'Liphalet. "I was all that
 comin along the cliff. I didn't see
 nary sign of her. Twenty minutes 1ago? Are you sure, Suz?''
 l NOs, yes, Mist Life. Sure sure,"
 said the fisherman. 'It seemed she
 had scarcely closed the door when you opened it."
 The other said no further word
 and he stood not on the order of his going. He plunged out of the shack into the gale with a stricture about his heart that was positively painful. Twenty minutes before he had been
 at the beginning of the patrol path.
 Through a rift in the curtain of sleet , he. had seen faintly that wrath, or figure, staggering for an instant on
 the verge of the cliff
 He whirled suddenly, with a pray
 CT upon his lips, and dashed into the !, shed adjoining Sub Montevedo's cot
 
 hung the coil of line he had seen the
 fisherman purchase at Cap'n Abe's , store q week ago.
 t In the corner stood a heavy crow 5 bar. He flung the coil of rope over t his head and one shoulder, and thus
 burdened, staggered out into the f storm again. The wind was really an aid to him, for it was at first all s most directly at his back. It thrust f him, on burden and all, at a furious
 pace. But it's cant was toward the t edge of the cliff and he fought away l from that. How could Sue have kept , her feet against such a tempest? Lip
 halet Truitt groaned again
 He arrived at the spot where he . believed the doctors sister had come , to grief. The snow and wind were ! both increasing in intensity. He could see nothing at a distance of two iyards. Nevertheless, he was assured , 1 of his position. Here was where he had seen that mysterious spectral fig c ure in the storm.
 (Continued in TomorroW'S Herald.)