The Daily Alaska empire., 1932-11-01
CHAPTER A. A VISITOR APPEARS

Jervis Weare did not know how long he had been listening to the tide, There had been a moment of hcrrid panic when he knew that the tide was coming in.
 It had been high tide last night Tuesday night--at nine o'clock. It would be high tide, and spring tide, at ten minutes past eight on Wednesday morning That made low tide just after two. It must have been somewhere about three o'clock when he was knocked out Say that was an hour ago. It was very difficult to gauge tir,e. and he had no watch. He regret ted his watch, with it's luminous dial.
 Well, if it was four o'clock or thereabouts. the tide had turned two hours before, and had anoth- er three hours to go. The ques- ton was-how far up was it going to come? He was on the landward side of the bars in the inner cave Where did Foxy store his kegs? He didn't just leave them hanging about in the tide-water.
 A little careful exploration show ed him that he was on a raised ledge about six feet by eight. On one side it was bounded by a slip pery tiled boulder of unknown height, and on the other three sides by an equally unknown drop. He couldn't climb the boulder, it was water-worn and as slippery as glass. Water -worn-and that tide was coming in He could hear it moving stealthily.
 There must De some ledge to which he could climb The thought of the passage came into his mind Leonard must have brought him here by the passage. Then there must be a way down into the cave and not too hard way, because Leonard couldn't have carried him down much of a slope. He wondered if there were steps cut in the wall.
 He must wait until there was enough water to float him, and then swim round the cave feeling for a foot-hold. His head was bet ter now but he felt terribly thir- sty. The Tapping of the waters suggested a long cool drink His thirst became intense. Thirst and the tapping of the tide.
 T should hate that death ban daged my eyes, and forebore and crept past"
 Where did that come from? He didn't know. He must have read it. And there was something far ther on about the black minute" Black minute-black eternity-the tapping, rising water. If he could only see.
 With the word in his mind, he saw.
 A harsh dragging, grating sound, made a confusion among the ech- oes of the cave, and cutting through the black darkness and the confusion, came a white and brilliant light.
 Jervis looked up at it, tingling with sense of shock. Light-a level ray of it overhead.
 It sprang out of the darkness into which he was staring, and he saw black scared rock all wet and slippery, with Assures that ran moisture.
 Someone had come down the passage from Old Foxy's house and was standing in the mouth of it with powerful electric torch in his hand. Then, suddenly the beam swung down and hit him in the face. He threw up his arm in- voluntarily, as if to ward blow and from the black mouth of the passage. Robert Leonard laughed.
 So you've come to. have you?'
 Take that damned light off me, ' said Jervis furiOuSly.
 He felt it go, and then flick back and catch him blinking.
 Robert Leonard laughed again.
 Not looking quite your best are you? Like wash and brush up? Oh, see you've got a bit of