The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1922-10-31


reenlng the tips OF his cigaret too
| bright zone never knows when ono
Is not watched no smoked spar
| tngly. But on tho twenty-eighth
| hlare az the whistle after the ring
| ing OF four bells, he drew out his
c.garet case and as tho thsrticth
raved cut. synchronous with two
double strokes and a single ON
brasen metal. no placed a eigaret
between hts lips.
Al the same time he saw Cap
tain Monk. who had been on the
bridge with the officer Of the watch
for several hours. come sft with
weary shoulders saEgtnx. and SO be
I low by the saloon companionway.
And LANYARD smiled knowingly and
assured himself that all went we'll
ca VA hlens--his star held stiil In tho
ascendant
There remained on tho bridge only
Mr., Collision and the man at the
Iwheei
i A. the fourth blast after frve bells
lanyard put match TO his cisaret-
But he did not pun more than 70
Z get the tobacco well alight. lie
even held his breath. and felt hts
body shaken by the pulsaticns OF
his anxious heart precisely as the
bcty Of thu Sybarite was shaken BY
the pulsations OF her engines.
With the next succeeding los sig
nal darkness absolute descended
upon the vessel. shrouding Il from
stem 90 stern like vast hianke,
cf blackness.
Mr.. Mussey had not failed 20 keep
his pact OF treachcry.
Lanyard was out OF his chair be
fore the first call of excited femon.
STRANGE rang out on drck--to BE-
echoed In clamor. Hts cigarsi
ssoppcd behind. on the taffrai. care
fully placed AZ precisely the height
(cf his head. lis little glowing tip
the only spot Of light on the decks.
] No matter whether or not II were
4 noted. no prccaution Is too instgnin-
j cart to b important when life and
death are az issue.
4 There was nothing Of that after
Z Moons unxurenrss Of foot La the
j way Lanyard moved forward Pass
j Ing the engine-room ventilatorr he
d heard the telegraph give single
n stroke. Mr.. Collision had only then
8 recovered from his sstonishmsns SUI.
b flclently to signal 20 slow down. A
Iscueai of the spcnking.tube whistle
followed instantly; and Lanyard set
i foot upon the bridge In time 10
Ihear Mr.. Collision demanding 20
1 kpew what tho sanSuinary hades
uAd happened down there. What
ever reply no got seemed to exas.
/ psrats him into incoherancs. lie
suffered with rage. Kasped. and ad'
dressed the man at thu wheel.
1--WE got a nash-iannp In my cabin.
| 1naku show Us the compass card
at least Stand by while run down
md get r.
Ths man mumblsd IN -Ay~ aye.
air. R<reAting footsteps we're tzss
audsbiA
Nefthsr spsaksr had bean visfhls
% Lanyard ny putting eat =
band he could have touched tho
heimsuan. but his body made not
even the shadow Of = Silhouette
against the sky. Ths fog was rem
. dering tie night the simple and IN
| qualified negation Of light
/ And In that time Of stygfan gloom
| violence was done swiftly. surely.
and without mercy: with pity. res.
! and with rcgret. Lanyard was sorry
for the man at the wheel. But
what WAS to he done could not be
done In any other way.
The surprise aided him. for tbs
fellow offered barely . show Of op-
position HIS astounfed faculties
had 70 more than recognized the
call for resistance when he was
powericss In r4anyard's hands. Swung
bodily away from the wheel. ne
went over the rail 10 the forward
deck like . bag Of sugar. Imrne-
diateiy Lanyard turned to tho bin
nacls.
Sensitive fingers located the key.
khois In tho pedestal. ne one kcy
Fykved from the ring which Mr..
Swain had so unfortunately and TN
secountahly lost opened the door
the key. Of course. that Mr.. Swain
had used under Lanyard's eyes when
demonstrating the functions Of the
pinnacle to Lane Deiorms.
Trusting hand into the open.
ting. Lanyard CROPPED for the ad.
Unstable magnets In their racks.
and one by one removed and drop.
ped them to the grating at the foo,
'of the pinnacle.