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SIX Louis Joseph Vance MOVCLIZATIDN Of THE MOT>C name:. produced tor the; in rx r UNDER THE DIRECTION OF WHARTON / / <?^?<?fL3R! THE CAST. J MRS. VERNON CASTLE as Patria Charming. MiLTON SILLS as Donald Parr. WARNER OLAND as Baron H uroki. DOROTHY GREEN as Fanny Adair. SYNOPSJS. Fatrla last of "The Vifchtinj; a * 11: n nine's." <i*4 rente lo N?-w >?rt. fur summer Inane, is- 'hrewn to iiimvii ii<?m a Sound steamer U.? agents ??t" Huron 11 uroki, ? it* <>f" the Japanese secret service., whit, . <>i. HpirinK " nilii'i'il I! e 1,'ihP .1 Stales an I Mexico. desires control ?>[ i he extensive I'iiaiininK munition plants owned by J';i1ria. I lor pi.ysieal < -<>unterpar i (Claim, a notorious dancer in llnrohiss su.bsiit u I OS; for J'a ina. FIFTH EPISODE The Island God Forgot. In the breathless litish of that bright midsummer dawn the island rested timid still wjtlops )ifc<e a jjreat yellow tojiny. ?>:i n lield of j^hovini; sapphire. jNo hind was visible in any quarter. y<M >'he mainland was voi remote. Shnvely iju island, little more than an nvribTowi sandbar, a desoJaW pateli of sait-hiff4mj earth protlueiuj^ no vegetation mof?- valuable thau < oa*ve beaeh /rmss, it was dialled and known to 'Jonp-shoro seafarers as Limbw I*dnnd. Ihil few if any of those had .ever taken occasion to visit It ; they knew jt by tradition for what it was, so passed |i by. Only of late year* had it jjrown itecustoined to shelter mankind, a lit ?it* <*<u<uiy ui Japanese ncnenmn Having chosen it for their base, JK# fbe sun rose. so did these simple folk; by f>voS and throes they emerged froui llodr /tide dwellings mid went tthout tiielr business, Some embarked in buttered cral't to dntw tlte nets and east tlie seines with which they w rest - ? IhT froiii the sea an apparently precarious livelihood. Others swarmed upon a little sloop that hlpl come in J OVtil'Pltftit to a crude dock thai JuviVii . out into the least exposed harbor of tlte Island, and began industriously to empty Its hold of a cargo of many ' %P*vf packing cases. These wojfco^, under tlte supervision of Ahe who wore th> habit of authority together with' the \vreck of what had once been a khaki uniform. A soil in ft inhabitant of the island seemed to have ho set and lids one way not a Japanese. The sun was high before he discovered himself to its rays, lounging suluTXy out of a dwelling slightly more f^K'tentious than its neighbors; a youngish man. well-made, with a dark, keen countenance of Latin cast ; his clothing of the simplest, a tattered shirt, trousers woi'U l<nd patched, an l old beit with a rtt^ty buckle?nothing more, not even shoes, 1' gaze with wb'th he reviewed the tOO familiar of sea ttnd sky was eloquent of euiidttfred ennui. Mis jj^outh twitched; his T'yes dared wild-, ly ; he damned the day with a gesture of passionate discontent ; shrugged, jerked a coarse cotton hug of tobacco, and a packet of browo papers frotn a htp-1 ax'ket, deftly with one hand fashhnied a cigarette, lighted it. inhaled exhaustively, and slouched ofl\ his hare feet f<?l 1? ?\vi n^r i im 1 i tY?*r?*i? 11 v a beaten pathway out of the duties. Near the dock he paused with a little, lacklustre -^a/.e re^ardiu^ the activities of his Japanese associates aboard Patria About to Escape From th< Island. the sloop. Then Inrninp his hark t* these )u? drift<a(l from their ken along tht\ wave-packed sands. A few hwi dred yards farther on, and he ohecket *buri?i.v. wiiii a iovi>?hhcd ixv oj , /**-?-> cSz&czJhc Great Romance toj* Preparedness jus-picture: plav of the: same 5NATIONAL FILM T?ViCF. INC., jhc. COPYRIGHT. STAfT lOMPAMY ;tiT!'.r/t\ A curvo of "fin- isl:in<1 luul Wrought liim within view of tin* ixxly , 1?t* :i w ??t r i: 111 111: 1 Imv InuMlctl >r (Ii<> | 1i:iIf in. h:?lf mil ?if ill., writer The woman's Imco w a*- hidden. tMlf Iwlore lu? mrned it to dim liuln he' knew by tin* imntlo in; vun.ent of her shoubb ts tli.it she lived. A eanvasoivejvd lite rinu' lay iw-.u by. sieneih^J with the name el' >. ,vnll Uiver lille s|, 4. isliip. St:iTlriiur down info that exquisite f:iee. ;i look ot III i 11 Url 011 OOV *ih Ills i1css :iiid ey.-. t kindled in the eye.- of the num. Jii<itur nbrnptly. he rrhod his surroni)'i;;i;:s with furtive -nut! suspicious ^l.-iives. At length satisfied that none waw.hed him. lie stooped. nathered that Irail \ounu; form in hie.inns And <hifte?l swiftly nwny. not .as he Intd come, but inland through .die dunes. Tun short minutes >ul!ieet.' /or the .journey: Jie came into tin- ijoTuvw ef the lints ste althily, pausing to mailt* >.iiic it was iiit'cuauied before hurr> iji:,y ij>tu his dwelling. lUit the luck wu.u; .no; wiuh him: -without Ins knowledge.,, lie was observed: the door had not closed upon hi in .-..old his salvage w lien a IjtJ/e Japanese dipped ipiietly from an adjoining hut and trotted briskly toward the harbu*. . . . "The girl opened CLu/.od. uncomprehending eyes upoju a w.rnc so strange i lo litem ileil tor -i ii.uiinoiil vlu? ?ik ball'-itichu<cd 1<o l>?\ld?w>- rii:11 she hud died id drowning and jnuotvd in spirit In some Wi'jnj ha 11 world. A I'eek id brandy burned hi h?Tw^.djiiJvi^tf/iJ throat. Sin* roughed a 111 lie , As it' that sound had *i signal a door was thrown rotigbl\ Jew ting in :i Hood of sunlight. Throogfi it entered a Japanese hi ragged uui< i forji|. The voire of the Japanese* Inohe ()ie tension edged with renmnsi i'ft nee; "Seiior Juarez, ! I am informed?" , The other Interrupted brusquely: "That 1 have fount] a half-tirowned woman?Americano-?on the beach nnd brought her her#, if* true," "Xou should not have done riiinj" "it seems With a sudden movement the Jap'I anese produced a pistol. "I regrjet the neces^ty,'' lie said, "but Huron Huroki's orders are to kill immediately any stranger who sets foot upon the1 IsbuiuJ" ' . I "\Vail!" The lingers of Senor Junre'/, closed quickly on the vvrlat of the Japanese and turned his pistol to the ceiling. Simultaneously the Mexican lift-1 ed. with his other hand, a small cau of bright tin that had stood upon u nearby table. "One moment, Captain llakuseki ! This cun contains nitroglycerin. * In the storeroom hack there"?a Jerk of Juure/.'s head imiieated a door in the hack of the building?"over one bundl'ed of high explosives are 1 stored. The woman Is lulue ", "J'aron Hui'okl !?" "I deal with Yoil?not him?and I ' witni o.'ti, I snfill Veep the woman or blow this island oft the map!" . ?r. i Tlte Japanese hesitated an instant, then eoneeded defeat with a shrug. I "Have your way." lie said mildly* and turned to go. ( Hut the grasp on his wrist was tin relaxed. "Walt another moment, t'nptain ilakusekk I wail I that pistol." It was surrendered without a suspicion of contest. "Now?go?ami don't bother us i a train. t'nptain llnkuseki executed a right >ibout fin e ami marched-' out of the hut. Setior .luare/. si'curcil the door he]iiml him. then turned to see the girl snuggling to a sitting position on the eot. lie hastened to assist her. "Von are weak, senorita?voii must not e\ert yourself. I'erinit me . . lie wound his arm amum! her waist, temlerlv assist ing imr to a ehair b.\ the tahle. As she sank into this, he bent over ami brought his lips elose to hers. She shrank away with a little ery. "Ah. no ! I'.e not at l aid of me, senorita! Kemeinber. I sa ved your life. What is ;i kiss in payment for that ?" The pistol he had taken from tie* Japanese rested on the table. ('banco guided the tinkers of the girl to its grip. inspiration of despair prompted her to lift its muzzle to the tin of nitroglycerin. "Keep away from me." she ordered in accents whose feebleness could not disguise a spirit of inflexible determination "Keep away?or I pull the trigger!" With a territled ejaculation the Mexican sprang back to a profoundly re..... 1/..I -11?4 ? j*|h*i 11iii msuiIK't', "Senorlta?I beg of you?!" 4,l#*Hve this house?or I pull the trigger!" .Inure/, threw himself madly at the door, wrenched it open, .started out J and?shrank back from a knife-bayonet on ft rifle presented by ti sleeky ^ deadly-looking little Japanese. ? "Captain Hnkuseki's orders: you re . main a prisoner till you give up tin j woman!" f Between the devil and the deep sea THE HOBBY HERA A , Hk- Sttonietun throw himself on the I cj *?f the^trl. **Kenorit??In tin* name of pity?J* j She nodded curtly. "Ouno in?sliw licit door?Mock It. Now tc33 ; mo where am !" "Sonorltn, you have horn washed ashore on In nbo island." "Where is?.hat?" "Soutlion."ft m?1" Newport?nhout thirty -iiil loss." "Ami why ?ro such jrrent quantities j of hijjh explosive stored oil L.iiub*? I si nuil?". "Senoiita?1 "conceal nothing from you?d am your .-slave?" "Answer my .f most ion !" The niu/.zlo ct* tlio pistol remained in olo-o juxtaposition to iho tin of nitroglycerin. Tie- Mexican shivered with tenor. "hiivaisr?" ho :-httninoroil "because Japan uses this i.vatul as a seerot depoi for munitions "To IN- used in the ovont of war with he I nh<e?l States?" "Si. Sei.x >ri til? yes." "1 utub rstand. . .. . Now fetch /tie 1"?>?u J , . CHANGELING. A1 nMil iv.il?!-iii(M'iii11lt, ynunjr man becomingly attired in r* ?1 i11ir clothe-, surrendered his horse to v he care of a lti'<>t>111 and ascended the t leps to tin\eraiola of the Chauninj; cottage on t lie ('li IT \vall;. In the doorway a footman united to .trivet him with 'lie manner <0 welcoming an intimate of the household. "Hood morning. Captain I'ajv. It's a pleasure to see you again, sir." "'Thank you, Gregory. Is AJr.s. Wrrmi at home?" "I believe so, sir," "And . . . Mis* ('humanly* "Miss I'aitia arrived hy hoati ?irly this mornii?g. sdr." "I'lease say to her. I am waiting for tile ride she promised me . . /* "Very irooil, *it\" The footman stepped haek Into the lion ;e ami disappeaiVd. Captain I'arr remained on the \eranda. seem lip; idly to admire the view, in reality oblivious of it. preoccupied with private considerations of not unpleasant complexion. Sounds of st itled lamentation disturbed his mood. lie discovered a pleasant fared holy's maid of mature years, forehead bowed against the newel-post at the I foot of the st id reuse tveeiiinir Imnllv Illlil COp|oU*I.V. "Why. Aunt1! What's the mutter?" The woman showed m Idowsy, tear stained. writ hen countenance. "Oh. Captain Purr, my heart's j broken ! 1 know what to do at ' nil. It's discharged I an), sir!" "What i" J'arr you Id hardly believe ; his ears. "Ml** Pa trio Is after discharging me without notice, sir?and all thes-. ycurs I've served her and neve? f> cross word?" "Itut why'' What did you do?" * "It's my clumsipess. sir. I happened to drop her hand ndrror. and it broke it ditl. And then it was like herxelt went mad. She tlew into a rage, sir and stamped her foot at me, and called me a clumsy fool, and said it luohiii seven years' had luck, and wouldn't listen to me at all at alt, and told mi to pack my trunk and go, that mysell wn.< Prod, aufj?V* * * *T?id she say 'fired.' Anne?" j "She did that, t'aptain Parr?" "It doesn't sound like I'atria !" "It doesn't, sir. For the matter of; that slie ain't seemed like herself since j that dreadful affuir on the boat last night." 1 "What dreadful affair?" "Vou haven't heard about it. sir? A poor Invalid lutly In the stateroom next | Mis* Pau la's went out of lier head | and Jumped overboard and was , drowned, sir." Anne hastily disappeared as Mrs. (iii'.icrl NVreiin, Pallia's chaperon, entered from the breakfast room with her son Kodney. At sight of Parr they broke into those wondering exeluinu1... ii.iM/tiritil thi I u " n III I I KM KIM l?. I ] 111 II VI "W'liy, Donald !" "Dim! For tin* love of Mike! How did y<m jj??t In ro? I'atria said?" * I llew," Captain I'arr explained inod< <i |y. "1 should say you did lly! What did y?ni do'/ I tin* a special train?" "I I lew," I'a rr iterated. "I nluned 1. , wKtep Awayl" liP.OMWiT,8:0. I rrdir. iCiov(>fluof? island (his mori'ilu#." I Donald ktilkiMi round to And the footman waiting for his attention. "Yes, (Jrejgury.?" The man ihesltated, with what seemed sitijnJlm* reluctance to deliver ?ais mo-sa^e. "l'ejr pardon. -sir . . . I'm sorry . . . Miss Chantihty directs me to say she is not at homo to Captain Parr!'* lJad ilie servant deliberately slapped Mf< f.aee, I>oiaiU! icould have been nc more thunders! ruck. Ww. Wrenn betrayed no less per* plenty. 'Xiregory:! wlma -did you say?" 4,Mjss Pntrin nitrite ted me io say, Mrs. AYrenn. she 1* mat at Inane to Captnhn Parr." The footman withdrew, murmuring sympsi thet i rally. "Km. J >oaahl." Mrs. Wrenn insisted. Tin sure he must have misunderstood. I'll run uf at oner and see I'atria my* self." "Please. tie. Mrs. Wremt. (Iregory's nil Intelli^erit fellow. Pat fin is douht)o?s out of temper with me J'or failing to en tell the boat yesterday." In point of faet. Parr hardly knew what he was saying or what Jie heard, overruling the ohjeerions of Uodney and his mother, he strode from the house, threw himself on the lan k of his horse, and rode away in a slate o1 da/.e. It needed a long, hard ride to wi*ar> Parr's emotions to sominuiabMrss. 11* hroughi hark a horse sadly fagged auc lat tiered. Now I humid Parr was never one to wear his heart <>u his sleeve. Toward mid-afternoon he changed to whi'e llannels, stitTened his upper lip and sought the Casino, outwardly a man with mind serene and carefree temper. rinding nohody of his < k cle of aeipniintnnces at the Casino?the hour was late for Inneh. early for afternoon tea?he fortified himself with n cocktail and sought surcease of brooding in that morning's Boston newspaper. It seemed at first a needlessly ci'vu ) freak of elumee that the very tirst news item to meet his eye should he so strong a reminder of his unhuppiness. Fall River, June 27.?While the Fall River line steamship Commonwealth was off Point Judith last niaht. Mrs. John Ferdinand of Chicago, an invalid suffering from melancholia, eluded her r.ur6e and committed suicide by jumping overboard. "Chicago, June 27.?The City Directory does not contain the name of Mrs. John Ferdinard." Slowly Donald lowered tlo* newspaper, u thoughtful furrow creasing his brows. Auno's words of that morning eunie hark to hitu like an echo pregnant with significance: 'I "Miss Patriu ain't seemed like herself since that dreadful affulr on the boat last j^Ufht!" tl-Ii at 17 . . . Horror gripped Donald's heart tike mo icy hand. . . . What if the Patriu of last night wcr? not the Putriu of today? That a womun existed so like Patriu in face and form that none could distinguish one front the other, was a fact too well known to Captain Parr. Pondering deeply, l>om?ld rose to leave the Casino and oh the way out came unexpectedly upon a group of four, seated over cocktails round a little table. He tried to ignore them, hut this was not permitted. A voice that, if not the voice of Patria ('banning, was at least a very creditable imitation of it, hailed him. "l?op?oonald Parr! Do couie h ere!" With tiie speaker at her ttiiilt* wort* Panny Adair, Huron litiroki ami Juan tit* Lima. Suspicion rift* in his mind, Parr bowed over tin* hand ofT??rt,d him h.v rli?* woman wlm mikDt or might not In* I'atria Cliannlng. To each of the olhits in turn lie nodded gravely. "Awful Jolly to meet you here. Don. I do so want you to lie the first to know: 1 have promised to marry Senor do Lima." I To the Mexican, alert to rise with a brilliant smirk of self-satisfaetion and a proffered hand, Donald bowed profoundly. His own hands remained clasped behind his hack. "I am happy to he aide to congratulate Senor 1 >e Lima." he said quietly; and turning, left the Casino. One more move that would he only ' : \ 811; ' "\ A *J'','\/'? Ordered Petri*. natural in an Impostor! He was firmly pcrsuudcd that the jiirl to whom he biul Just been talking was not the true Putriu ChantiliiK. But how-to prove that? llow to nvciigc that crime which had made possible the substitution of this impostor? Parr set his wits to eope with that problem. Pending their solution, he applied himself to the task of keepiim Huron Huroki under close but unostentatious surveillance. Late in the afternoon lluroki was surreptitiously waylaid by a low-easte Japanese, from whom lie received a message which seemed to cause lite baron considerable perturbation. The messenger was duly identified as one of the colony of fishermen on Limbo; he returned to a little sloop, which had Just come in from the island and made fast to a dock on the business waterfront of the community. Huron lluroki himself returned to bis hotel and remained there closeted with .hum lie Limn, till nielli fall. i'nder rover nf" i Isi etc to. villiixl I*.? i*i I? ,iv linked by Donald 1'iirr, made a ?*ireiii Ions way I <? the waterfront and hoarded the sloop, whieli immediately east off and set sail for the liarlior month. Now what pressing business draped 11nidki away to Limbo island by ni;dii ? l'arr made it his own business to lira! out. If there were something on Liniho that interested Huron llm'oki so profoundly, it was sure to prove no whit less interesting to the t'nited States secret service. ! Within fifteen minutes of the time when the sloop had sailed. Donald launehed his seaplane ami rose to an I altitude whetiee he eottld espy 11141 island, a formless hlur of darkness on the lace of waters silvered hy moonlight. THE HUMAN BOMB. I Half-buried in tin* side of the largest dune on I.imho island, the dwelling which Senor .luare/ had shared with his Japanese associate Captain llakufc'eki, was a shack of a single room, with one window and two doors. Of these last one. like the window, opened upon the hollow in which the other liuts of the station were gathered together; the remaining door led, hy way of a short, timbered tunnel, to a huge, vault hollowed out in the heart of the dune, wherein a very considerable store of arms, ammunition, mines and high explosives was sheltered. On the farther side of the dune?here a concave bluff, wave-eaten?the vault had two great doors 1 ??*lii 11 < 1 \\ 11i<-Ii a biplane , stood ll^lilly poHcd, Toady for instant use in emergency. | By tin's means alone I'atria Chnn-i nine hoped, with the aid of the Mexican. to contrive an escape from the refuge which had proved so quickly tlie cell of two condemned prisoners. For the shack was in a state of siege. Since the dispute Ik*tween Juarez and tlnkuseki the hollow had been picketed , witli armed Japanese. As yet these hud made no offensive move; but tlie understanding was implicit, that neither prisoner might set foot outside tlie ' shack save at penally of death. I'atria, condemned by Huron lluroki's ukase that no stranger might visit the island and live to tell of it. Juarez" death sentence signed by his own act of mutiny. Thus the interests of the two were one. in bonds of common peril. I Juarez had schemed a scheme lo hoodwink the enemy which I'atria had indorsed. Sim waited now, alone in the shack, for tlie Mexican s return from making all things ready at the far side of the vault. There was no light other than a feeble glimmer of moonshine tillering in through cracks arouttd window and l door. The girl sat in a corner, the tin of nitroglycerin oil the table before her, automatic pistol in hand, iter pose one of tense vigilance, i Noiselessly in his hare feet, Juarez returned, preceded by the flicker of an electric torch, bringing with him a i modern magazine rifle newly filched from the stores in the vault. "Are you ready?" he whispered. I'atria arose with a nod of assent, and picked tip the tin of explosive in a cautious hand. 'Follow the aisle between the parking cases," lie instrneted with a ges; tare toward the tunnel. "It leads to the hnngur doors. If the guards on lite beach ran off to see what's the juatter when 1 begin shooting, tinhur the doors?but don't open theia till 1 join you." She nodded again, and entered the tunnel as Juarez tiptoed to the window ami stealthily unbarred it. Picking her way cautiously, she arrived beneath the wings of the hiplaiu before the silence of the island ni^ht was shattered by a rippling fusillade. An eye to the crack between tht great doors, she saw two armed Japanese who had been patrolling the bead ! turn and, after momentary hesitation run off in the direction of the disturb a nee. Working swiftly, she had lifted dowr the last heavy bur of wood that hek the doors together before Juarez up i pen red at her side. "Good!" he breathed, eye to tin crack. "I got one of them. The other: 1 tiro nronnrliicf tn vtnrrn (ho ulmok | ?? a v M I aamfV * w* v#i iai iiiv niinv. w j We've got perhaps two minutes. . . Putting his shoulder Against one o; i the doors, he swung it widely out i I'atria had the other open almost hi ' quickly. She stepped into open nigh with a little shiver of excitement am fright, and waited to one side whih j Juarez wheeled the hiplune out as ens I ily us though It had been a perninhu i la tor. lie turned and beckoned. A virion i tongue of flame licked out of l.eacl i i*. *" that crmvnod a nearby dune. Simultaneously it rifle spoke. Juarez throw liis hands high, spun iu his tracks, a nil dropped. There canto a second shot. A little spurt of sand flew up at l'ntriu's foot. A Heedless in her terror, she dropped the 1 tin of nitroglycerin and sped swiftly up the bench, without thought or uha other than to find >belter front those bullets which persistently hounded iter footsteps, singing past her or sullenly burying themselves iu the sands. Of a sudden she saw 1 Ink Jpbn? I nlng to moot her. the brilliant ty/onnlight glinted on a weapon in Ills band. Willi a sob of despair, I'atrla turned ] blindly at rigid angles and ran?with- i II <-'! i I'm 1111 hi. ciii 1111^ win i hit sin* run k ?out upon tiio )uirl>or dnek. * Behind lu?r tIn* automatie of the .lapanaso rattled shrowislily?and was unexpectedly niiswcrt'il from offshore. At tlit* end of the dock. tlie.jjirl paused ami glanced back. Ilakuseki had Kivcn up Ilia pursuit?was, indeed, running swiftly for shaltar in Ilia ilunas; but tlia rillos of bis followers ware speaking animatedly. A uraj11 llooil of bopa surged ii'JPcr bosom as sba looked otTsbora and disao\ arad an airplane settling dow n like an immense water fowl upon the <urlure of the harbor, not twenty yards ^ The Rescue. distant. If doubt existed In her mind hk to the identity of Its pilot. were It#1 friend or enemy, it wuk soon erased by his hull. "Pallia! Qulck-~-*wim off to uie!" The pilot's pistol rattled again. Donald's voire! Patria was imi move afraid; and water was as her native element. Without hesitation she divtd and struck off toward tlie plane. Little more than a minute later Purr was helping her to elimli up on one 4| of the pontoons, then to a seat beside Ills own, while InillelK rontintied to sink' rlchoohetted over the waters and tear through the covering of tlie planes. Site was no more than settled in lor place* when I'arr began to manipulate tlie controls and the seaplane skimmed the surface of the harbor i.t a long, graceful curve, then began to rise. . . Rack on the Island, standing beside the biplane, Captain llnkuscki witI ncssed tin* successful evasion in a rage that milled even his racial placidity. In bis understanding the affair ?0 intolerable; though be perished endeavoring to prevent It. this escape must not lie permitted. Summoning assistants, l.e turned inward the biplane?and paused as his foot struck what one swift down glifcee identified as the tin of nitrngljv n. Inspired by this accident, he [deked up the tin, crammed It Into a vide pocket of bis khaki coat, and clambered to tlie pilot's scat. Provided lie might maneuver ills aircraft above the other, ^ in- \>ouna ihm'U ? liiy to drop this dead- ^ ly bomb; mid Ilivn* wo.ild be nothing left of tin* fugitives. ITis aids start?? ! the motor. Willi a roar tli<* propellers began to revolve. Ilakiiseki grasped tin* controls. The machine shot off down the beach and took the ail at the water's edge. The seaplane, seeking a high level, was rising in a wide spiral. As^yet it was not high, and the .lap>vl^i^' , 'plane was the better at climbing. I Within ai space of time incredibly brief the two were hovering on an appt'oxi, unite level, high above the island. One shot might serve his end. The temptation wais too strong to be resist,' ed. lllikuseki drew his pistol, amd , opened fire. , In Parr's machine, Patrla ('banning ( took the weapon proffered by her res-. , . j ctier and, leaving him free to nlteiid I !ii hiu /Inf li?o "di -i I - >nuirn n."* JMiOl, Ul'CW IICI'SCII I buck at length upon the piano ami rc1 turned the tiro of tlie Japanese. .1 Ifukuseki was conscious of some| tiling like the impact of a fist between j'his eyes. Blindness followed, with, ^agonizing pain. Ho crumpled in his a t | sent, lurching forward against the con jtrols. Ills last conscious thought. (lone of terror; the hiplatto was faliim-'; jthe tin of explosive remained in his K pocket; when lie came to earth he t would be utterly annihilated. UneoiiI , sciousness mercifully ensued. e\ Nose down, the biplane dived like.'it plummet; but the body of HaUu seki, thrown from its place, distanced the inneblne. The summit of the great | s dune that housed the store of oxploli sivps received the full Impact of Its