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NEAL of the NAVY t\y WILLIAM HAMILTON OSBORNK Author of "ficd Moute ' 'Running I fa ' "Caltpaw, ' "Blue ttucklc. ' elc. Novelized from U)? Photo PUy of th? Hum* Nano Produced b f lltf P?the li* tbttnge, luc, (."pMMflu, tolb, Of Wliiltuu f Uuiiluju 8YNOP8I8. <*h I1ii? tlny of thuv ?u uptkni of Mount |?t | , ti < uj?|. John llaroln of (In; nUauin r I'ma < pm ><??' Mi-H (Ivo- y'M ? -i l i Anii' ii. Ihnxb.n frOrti oil opt* ii boat. Inn la foitfe<J to it-iivo l/eflind t?<i father o 1 1 ? I bin com pauloiiN I JtiiKtoii U ?M*aultO(] t?y llor band /. nnd l'onto In n vum uttetttpt to gel i' ii" "? which liioi ton Iuik iiiuiki to t.' inl nhourtl lliu I'rlin > *H With ? 'hW d'iiijfiliior, paijorw provOiM hi* title to ami U-ll.Mtf the* wliet ?iuljotiiH of tint lo>>i It?l?? ml of i innabnr. IllnKlon'a Injury itiUAti} lil.: ml iid to become a blank. 'ivhirt < ?-n v.?* ? * ? i li<|ihii. Hernandez' now mi ophim. amuj( Kl'T, With f'onto, Inez, u f< iii.il- '<< 1 ofh plk'i*, ami th? blind liH? brtlto tliat onco wii lllfiKton/.i'onM to 1 1 ? ? / 1 . w.hurt till widow of ( 'apt H I II Hardin fa' IIvIiik with her aon fs'eal and Ahntitb* lllnsiton, and plot to hK'wI tlu* pfiiX'l'N kfl to Anna! t<i ny ber father.. Neul hIoh for udmlkoiion to lli? Naval Head.-iny, litil through the t ii'iinliriy of .ba y Wulrla'i In (lofoutod by Joey and d|Knr acdl. N?h?| *uillatM In tin navy. Inez m ih a trap for Jooy ami tb<? ebrnplratorx i<< I hiln In tbi'lr power. In a Minugln foi p'i!:.'v':iHlon of the map II. r oaml' Ann' >lt4i anil N<iftl each a$?.Uro a port Ion. Ann< Ma nails on tin t.'oronado In fle/iii.'h of lie)' father. In Marilnlqtu- .Art* nullo anil JScaI um MiHUI'lmI, but lii'u trtt eiicd li .i hft 'iiuit H|V0|>, I in /, (irff(it)l b!Mi tiflculioh piper* (or hoiieK aa Annette. In rtfi bi?H?? I'v lto-V Neat arid Annette ?tr? ?K?in. '?aptured, earrh'd (o the Hon City and Ann* lie In offered aa a nat.il I10? to the nun Kod. They ft re rewind by ma. I IliOf) from the Albany, Landed in Tortu ?ft. Annette and N^al i re < aptured and oxpnHed to yellow fever ' lnf>;< lion by I !<?? tinndi a, bCit um reamed by nullora from the Albany. Inez, irlea to rob Annette and eHeapcM. On ber w.fty to t'hanllllo An nette la <aptur<'d Neiil In promoted and leads a party of trunaferred mun toward Cbnntlflo, but IxcauKht In iL train wreck oil the way. Hernandez, and Inez. present inn f a i we Jdont I fici^t I on papera to itmther AiiHelmn at Hantu Maria miny|on. I'onlO Ih caught and billed in IiIh own trap, ,sel for Annette. Annette proven title ami turnu over l^oat laland to the Kovern inont. WeU'tier (Ilea in a r morneful effort to Hftve ber fif?m Hernandez. Annette and Ncal, ?m their way to Lost Island, are wrt- ited on a cannibal Inland by Uer na iuh ?/,' , t rleUery. The Hrnla Ih iiecoptcd by th? eannlhalH nn their ?o<l. Hernandez. ahnwH Ida power over the Brute and la ttec-tjiled by the <annlhalH. Annette la eap. ui i d but reamed by Neul and a parly from the MIkhouiI. I|ernantlez. and Inez oaeape In an open bout. FOURTEEMTH INSTALLMENT "THE GREAfGOAL" CHAPTER LIX. Who Am I ? In tho sick bay of tho battleship Mis souri mi anxious little group ? uni formed and othorwiso-<-grouped them selves nroilnd tho form' of tin uncon scious man. Ho lay upon a cot. Ilia head wax swathed In bandages. The surgeon, seated oti a camp stool by his sldo, raised his head and glanccd at those about him. "Tho vitality of this man is llttlo loss than marvelous," ho said. Annette Illusion started forward. "Then he will live?" sho said. The surgeon nodded. Tho llttlo group bent forward. And v. ith good reason. Tho llguro on tho couch stirred slightly ? tho huge form quivered. At last tho unconscious mrjn became 110 longer so. He opened f wide hiseyes. lit! starod wildly about the cabin, Struggling the whilo to riwo, "You'll never know from mo where > .out Isle in," ho muttered. "l^ook at i'elee ? death ? destruction. Pray God, the lYincOHS ? " lie lifted his head. Tho surgeon seized him by one arm and a uni formed attendant by another. Llut ho tossed them from him as though by tho turn of a wrist and struggled to a Hitting posture. "You will;" ho snarled, clutching at tho two men. "It's Just as well I found you out, Hernandez? you and your henchman, Ponto; just as well before ? Como on, both of you to gether." In another instant ho would have been upon his feet. Hut his eyes fell upon Annette llington. ,rArine,n ho cried. Ho stretched forth a hand as though to touch her, then suddenly withdrew it. Ho shrugged his shoulders. "What's tho use?" ho muttered to himself, "I'm dreaming ? dreaming." "Dreaming," said the surgeon som berly, "for thirteen yoars." Neal grippod his mothers arm. ?t. "Look at his eyes," ho whispered, 'his eyoa. Something has happoned to hipi. He has becomo a man." Tho bruto man glanced Inquiringly at the surgeon. "What is tho mattor with me, doctor?" ho exclaimed, his volco strong, his tones resonant with reason. "Did my friond tho Portu guese ? Hernandez ? get me after all? I know I struggled with him; that's tho last thing I remember. Tho Mexi can must have black-jacked mo from behind." Tho surgeon smiled. "Ho black jacked you from behind, all right," ho said. "Whero's Manuella?" wont on tho tigure on the cot. "And where Is tho llttlo girl?" The surgeon nodded to Neal. "He's a man all right." he whispered. "Tho soul has come back Into tho body after many years." "Tho littlo girl," went on tho bruto man. His glanco shifted and again ho sought Annette. "Anne," ho cried again. Onco more his glanco became doubtful. "Excuse me, nurso," ho went on, nodding to Annette, "I thought you were my wife come back to life. May I ask your namo?" "I nn not a nurse," said Annette. "My namo is Annette llington." The man started. Ho dropped hits head upon hit* cheat; ; then ho clutched something with his hand, it was Jds hoard tho growth of many years/Tln hold it out hoforo j him. "What's thlB," ho said, '.'another ?Joke?" Vl'ull It am! see," suggested the Bur- J goon. Tim man gave tho hcurd a mighty tug. "Ouch," again he cried. "It's glued. ' Tho Burgeon, somewhat uncertain of his ground fearful of results touched the man upon tho arm. "It Is not glueu, " he said, smiling and watching fearfully for tho slight* est change of expression. "It grew it ha? been growing for over thir teen years. You're a Itlp Van Winkle j ? you have come back to life." > Ho paused and waited while that fact sajjk home. Then in a buslnOss liko manner ho drew fopth a memo* randum book and without further glancing at his patient' hold his foun tain pen poised in air. "Your name, sir and address," ho Haid. The matter-of-fact tone roused tho pfttient from a dangerous reverie. "Me," be exclaimed. "Who am 1? I am Ilington lllngton of Martinique." * * * * ? * * * A few days latter lllngton, clean shaven, oat upon the deck of the Mis sourl. Ho was a handsome man-^-as handHome as ho had boon some thir teen years before? save that time had carved deep linos upon bin faco. His forehead -still was bandaged. Annetto crouched at his side and she hold betweon her hands the band of Ilington ? tho hand that bad been so often raised to Strike her down. Noal strode to the little group and sa luted. "Off duty for tho present, " ho ex plained. "llow Is t^e head?" Ilington grunted. "Sore as the dickens outside," ho returned, "but working right inside ? at least so far as I can toll." He glanced quizzically at Noal. "Ensign," ho said, "I can't get information out of anybody. They think I've got to grow up liko a child; but today I am feeling fit? I am all hero and 1 want to know. Toll mo something." "I'll tell you everything," said Noal. "Tho surgeon quite agrees with you. He has discharged you cured." * And then they told him ? and It took hours In the telling. They told him tho truth, the whole truth and noth ing but tho truth. . "Lot mo get bold of that Portu guese, just once," he muttered, "and I'll tear him with ray baro hands, limb from limb" CHAPTER LX. Quicksilver. Out of tho sea nt sunset, bearing in his arms a burden, staggering up upon the shore of the Lost Isle of Cinna bar ? there strode a man. Hehiiul him, silhouetted against the horizon, was a small sailboat, deserted and strand ed on a sandbar. The man was the Portuguese adven turer, Hernandez. The burden in his arms was a woman, and the woman was. Inez Castro, his companion. Ho dropped her gently to the ground, and she lay there for an in stant, well spent, half exhausted. Then sho, too, staggered to her feot. "This," cried Hernandez, "is Lost island. We are in possession? and possession is nine points of the law. The god of chance has favored ua so far, little one, and so long as the god of chance joins with Hernandez, Hernandez wins." They travolod Inland. Tho sun had set, tho moon was full. For many min utos thoy had traveled through a clear ing, and suddenly before them, rough, ragged and forbidding in tho moon light, there loomed a ruined structure built of stone. "It's tho fort."_whispored Hernan dez, "tho Morro castle of the Ilington map." In tho far distance there was a red glow against tho sky and the dull, faint clang of motal against metal. "We aro not alone," whispered Her nandez. "Someone works the mines. So much the better. Wo shall have allies. I^et us seek them now." Inez sank down at his feet. "Leave me alono ? here," sho whispered. "You can find me easily. I can go no far ther and I am afraid ? afraid." Already Hernandez had bounded across tho clearing, turned a corner of the crumbling ruin and was on his way. Within the next few moments ho was standing on the edge of what ; seemed to be a crater of a volcano ? - j a huge pit that seemed to belch forth j Are. But it was not a volcano and It did J not belch forth tire. It was a clnna- | bar mine ? or a series of cinnabar j mines? pits cut into the surface of ( tho earth and illumined by brush fires. ' Hernandez crouched upon tho edgo J of this huge man-made crater and watched tho scone with interest. In each pit half a dozen men or more worked - ?vay like ants, their shadows flung against tho walls in fantastic shapes. Hernandez tlrm .iuop breath of satisfaction. ' "I'll I m In the I he said to bin? ?elf. "Them- n in- my men or my name la no) nandez." He drew forth ? u*o of pistols and examined tin-m < ??'!?/ in the moon light- Kail*'" <i Hn v were In working order. one and skirted the edge of I e>?itof, creeping stealthily around Ind the furnace. Tlnn, with i?i ? 1 1 ? ' ' ? utility, he hurled UJm?eir t< ?m the skies Into a circle of i "hi, lifted up his voice und calbMi iilO'?d. ? In an instant he was surrounded by a motley erow ot uiun men strango, weird- men whoso fapes were over grown with a rank nntrlmmed crop of hair and board. They hailed his advent with delight. Out of this multitude a hugo Individ ual pushed his way through to Her nandez and p'aend a grimy hand upon Ufa* latter's shoulder. "'Whence come yoU?" he queried In Spanish. Hernandez answered him. "I was sot adrift In a small hoat," he returned, "and I came ashore hero not knowing where 1 was. Who, sir, are you, my countryman?" "Twelve years ago," said the pirate chief, "we were wrecked ? ground to pieces on this shore. And wo found what? Enough to eat? Yes. A place to sleep ? a place to live. Hut this Is a God forsaken is'and, senor. Only tho mines have kept ns from going mad. Wo have worked for wealth madly?hoping against hope." "What do you mine?" asked Her nandez. "Onnabar," returned the chief. Hernandez raised his eyebrows. "Quicksilver," ho said. "It should make you rich." , The chief held up his arms. "Rich," ho cried. ."Senor, follow mo." lie en I led lor a torch and nodding to Hernandez led the wuy to the edge of a nearby pit and down a ladder. At tho foot of the ladder he crawled into an opening and bade Hernandez follow The opening was a cave? a cave whose floor was covered with huge earthen jars, "Quicksilver, senor," hissed tho pi rate chief ? "millions of pesetas worth ? possibly a billion? who knows." "Did* you come (Upne, Benor," he nsk^d. "Is there any woman with you?" llernandoz shook his head, but a terrific fear clutched his soul. "No woman," he returned. "I am alone." The chief fell back, disappointed; then he raised his voice to its. normal tones again. "All this, sflTlor," he ex claimed, appealing to his companions, "a king's treasure. Wo have carted it for twelve long yoars. Wo would give it all for women." He thrust his face into Hernandez'. "I, senor, would give it all for one." CHAPTER LXI. ' Cutthroats. As the koel of the Missouri's launch grated against tho sand, Annette little boat, left to lUelf, ?wuni about And plunged full tilt toward the ?bore. As It atruck Annette waa there to meet It. She daahed Into the aurf and dragged Ii t In aafely to dry land, was frantic with fear. "Wharf, aaked Annette, "la the Portuguese, Hernandez?" Inez waved her band wildly ln 8 bOre. ' 'Somewhere- i" there? with the boasts, " she cried. "Don't a?k me, 1 don't know. 1?1 ran away from him." "The beasts?" faltered Annette. "Worse than that," returned Inez, j "you re a woioun. I'lii a woman. . I've i Im ( m hldiuK from them-- even from ! liitu lor three days. lie he doesn't know where 1 am ? ho hasn't found me. Oh!" She sank upon tho saud ? her form Hl.ook with agitation. Annette, wondering, knolt by, her side. "Why have you run from hlra?" | she queried. "I ? 1 can't blame him," cried Inez. 1 suddenly. facing Annette. "He's mad crazy for wealth, Hernandez] So am I. And wealth is here? you don t . know ? He told mo all about it? be fore I began to suspect? "Suspect? what?" asked Annette. "Ah," went on . Inez, cheeking hor agitation, for tho presence of An nette gave hor courage, ''you should see? ho told me ? there arc millions of dollars worth of quicksilver? all ready for tho market ? stored away. Millions of dollars' worth. Ami the mines? they'ro not half worked. And these beasts arc working them ? " "Hensts?" said Annette again. "Cutthroats ? men? all of them, men," groaned Inez, "and they've been hero years and years? and they've boon alone. They're wild-eyed enough to kill each other. And they offered Hernandez all the quicksilver that they've got If he'll find some way t<p bring them women. Ah, for hour aft er hour ho harped on that ? to mo. Hour after hour he repeated it ? talked about it In his sleep. And finally I un- , derstood- ? " V "You're safe," said Annette, "at least so far as Hernandez and these? beasts are concerned. There's a bat tleship riding in the bay around tho bend. Nothing can harm you now" Inez gasped with relief. "Nothing can ? " she began. Thert she uttered a wild yell. "Ugh ? arg-g-gh ? look." Annette looked-? almost too late. Out of tho brush behind them bound ed two frightful figures? half-clad? with matted ..hair and beard. With hoarse cries they darted toward tho women. Inez turned frantically and tied up the beach One of tho cut throats darted after her. Annette swiftiy drew her pistol, aimed and fired. The pursuer of Inez dropped in his tracks. Hut in another instant . Annette was seized in a pair of strong arms and tossed over the shoulders of a giant and carried swiftly inland. Suddenly their path was blockedf! , A liguro shot out beforo them and stood with folded arms. This figure was Hernandez? and Annette almost hailed him as a friend. "He Has a Right to Know, "She Said. gprang out and waded gleefully | ashore. Neal was a close second. | Two sailors carried Mrs. Hardin through the shallow water. A lieuten ant leaped out with Itington, and bounded to dry land. It was two hours later that Annette, pursuing a heirless little tropical ani mal along the beach, roundod a cor ner, and espied a sail. Her heart leapod into her throat. Upon her porson she carried a auro flro automatic; she examined it and found It In excellent condition. Then she turned her glanco onco more up on the sail. And then Annetto'B heart stood still again. For within the boat there was a human figure. Annette shrank bo- j hind a rock and watchcd. And sud- j denly sho know ? The figure was Inez. Sho was alone, and seemed to be making frantic ef forts to sail the boat. Annette watched her with Interest. And while she watched a sti ff breeze sprang up and nearly swamped the boat. I "Inez ? Inez," sho cried, "do as I say ? Inez ? " Inez heard her, and immediately for- ' sook the tiller and the ropo and held out her hands beseechingly over the gunwale of the boat. It was the best courso she could have pursued. Til? "So," said Hernandezt "I have kept ray promise. The woman Is yours? ~ tho treasure is mine. It is a bargain." Thon ho uttered a sudden exclamation. "It is not Inez," he cried, "it is you ? you little wildcat of an Ilington. So you have arrived. It is better so ? better so." "It is barter, eh?" he queried, "you the woman. I the jars of quicksilver." Tho chief regarded him fiercely. "You lie in your throat, stranger," he exclaimed in guttural tones. "I cap tured the woman ? you kept her from mo. I took her by force ? and I have waited long." He laughed loud ? a de risive laugh. "I took her by force. I have her. Yes, and yOu have our treasure ? after you, too, have waited long? after you havo taken it by force. Ho, ho." Hernandez understood. 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