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% ?x S n Louis Joseph \hnce < NOVELIZATION OF THE MOTIONNAME. PRODUCED fOR THE INTERN) UNDER THE DJRECTfON OY ! i THE CAST. , ' MRS. VERNON CASTLE as Patria Charming. , MILTON SILLSas Donald Parr. , WARNER OLAKD as Baron ] Huroki. } DOROTHY GREEN as Fanny Adair. I < ~ i SYNOPSIS. j* On her twenty-first blrtlulay, when sue ^ Is to take over control of her fortune, 'f'atrla Chunning ftudtj her suurrilan as- 1 nasalnated by Japanese in her New York ^ home. A letter written by the numfered nutn tells of a aenvt \ault beneath the 11- ,J brary containing ?HX).000,000, hoarded by v Putria's patriotic progenitors to combat the perils of national "unprepari-dnoss" * ?of which trusi Pott la. is sole executrix? and warns against IFiaron Huroki, alleged lt?ad of the Japanese secret service in * America. Japanese Jnvade the house and .! set It afire while Patria Is inspecting tin? , treasnie vault with Vapt. Donald Parr of the United States secret service. The two > escape by an underground passage to a garden behind the ho .se. F P1Q fl n F TWRFF k- I IsJ'J UU I I II I L.U j "Winged Millions." ' When, some thirty minutes Inter, Pa- ? tria <'banning ami Captain Parr reentered the walled garden thev were no . in ore alone; three men accompanied them, plain citizen* all, of manner and , appearance so little romantic that the , girl found it somewtuit ditlieult to accept them for what they really were, on the word of Captain Parr?highly ( efficient operatives of the United Slates secret service. I None bill would Iw-.ve been readily lost in a crowd ; and lie whom Parr pre sented as a Mr. Ityley. his most valued eo-worker in the service, possessed a personality so coiorleo* and unassuwj- < ing that he might have moved unques- ; tioned in almost any stratum of society.. Yet it was this one who look over tciw- I l?or?ry charge of the treasure with the ; utmost sang frokl-?for nSl the world a* ] though he were asked to safeguard ? . hundred cents instead of a hundred < millions of doilars. Though hy this lime 1lm firemen had 1 extinguished the ilnmes, the first ulmJ second stories of the house were a smoking, steaming mass 4<f wreckage that preclude utterly any atteir.pt to 1 examine the approach to? the treasure %'uult via the library. Police still watched in front of the house and would, Kyley guaranteed. till the last of the treasure had been removed through the . . . "It's stife enough." he said, returning from exploration of tin* underground way iti company with 1'arr. "almost too safo, If you ask iiic. That floor down there Is shut for keeps; we'll want an acetylene torch to cut through It before wo ran rail this a moving flay. I'll ho going after that now, if you don't mbwh llwrgess and lfarvev here will op on thr Joh and see that nobody ma.vs trouhlr before 1 \ get bark." Approving this arrangement. Ihitrin turned to Captain I'a it. "And now." she said-whh a wrarv little smile, "you may take mo to breakfast for I'm famished. Ami I'll rail Newport on long distance and soothe Aunt Amelia down and get her to send my maid in with something else for ino to wear." . . . After breakfast they taxied hack to the walled garden. Ityley himself had only pmt returned wilh a mechanic and the acetylene torch apparatus. His fellow workers in the secret service remained in undi.stnrlmd pus Lit a Sputtering Fuse. * ? csAion of the garden with nothing more to report than that they had observed no suspicious circumstances of any sort. It was Burgess who offered this reatoiurance?a tubby little man with a Uuv.nllchoi nliMi?nnt vrtl^o niw{ intlH> friendly eyes. He had Just finished speaking when he started violently, cried out in sharp pain, clapped a hand to his left breast, stood for a moment he Great Romance \ >f Preparedness picture: pl.ay of the: same 1 \tional film service, inc, 11 NC roPYKiOMT STArt COT1l?AHY ' : wtijrlng Tvh'iVc a 1?nk of acute, urinaaed * rotest idened on liis countcnunee? itid dropped dead at their feet, shot ^ hrough Hie heart. ^ As one man. R.dey, Harvey and the e nechanie ducked to cover behind the if, valt, while Parr delayed only to grasp ['atria almost roughly by the waist. (>J md drag tow with him. "That corner house," he said sharp- s y to ltyley, indicating an unoccupied ^ Iwelling Which adjoined the'Ohanning j csidence on the Fifth avenue side? . i 2 "somebody stationed in an .upper room i ^ ?behind those shutters?\v3i'h a gun of some sort, Maxim-silenced. 'That slr>t f <*ti Id n't have come from any other ^ junctor. Hew : take eare of Miss Chan- ) ling, please:; ehan't let her expose her- i ^ ieif. I'm going to have a <vry for our ^ ray assassin." Pent almost double, he irau in the : J holier of the wall to the Tear of the J mlf-burned house, and. cimhlng the | j *>\v sill of a window, easily swung him elf Mj) and hi to ill" library. . The room had barely escaped liccom- ( . kg a total wreck?was in vruth little . ti'M.T: yet thwe remained of the llnorn.7 a v. eh of charred and greasy timh :'n strong enough to sustain a man's vcight. Parr picked a gingerly way j a; p? lie- entrance hall, found the , ;tairs negotiable. and within a very lii- j . le lime was climbing out on the reef j luxMigh a broken skylight. Nor was he n any way surprised, to lind thescutle "ll the roof of l he corner house ' ?reeeni! broken open, if he read lie signs ariglit. Snalihily. >ln n. automatic in hand. ! ' apt-, in Parr lei himself down into : he odeiudhiy varum resilience, stole ae'.c through the upper hallway, and "<;(|, ?dy ihrew op/y;i the door t<??nne of lie retur Vnom*. * S:i.ev.ianeciisly a little man who had een ksoeoling at oft" of the shuttered windows swum; roiia I. and whipped wo slim? at Parr from a heavy revolver furnished with a Maxim si- : ' leneer. J'aiT's answering -shot rune iriitallv ioud. The linle man dropped liis revolver and sitbsfiided into a curl- ' Misly disheveled heap, quite dead. The 1 raptain delayed only long enough to , ' make sure that there was no other ' oecapant of the room. ati>d to verify i!m? fact, which lie had all n3<?tig suspect etl.. that the murderer was a Japanese. "loft here to discourage any attempt of ours to hreak Into t Imt vault." he surmised. "That means the enemy has surprised our secret?is probably even now trying to get away with tlie loot. . . Throwing open the shutter. lie called I to liyley In the garden that the danger [ had been done away with, then turned j and set himself \o hasty exploration of ; tlie corner house. lie found no living soul therein, but every evidence that many had been in lawless possession of I be nreiiik<.< net 1 ' I Ion:: since. The place liii< 1 been milled of its furniture. the trail of whose hasty removal led I'arr to and through tin* front door. As lw ran out Into the avenue a c:ts Mai-minded |n Ii? 111:in. strolling past. "I lava yott noticed anybody leave this house?" Parr asked. "I've nolieed about two dozen leaving j It?and that's about all they did leave. A bit: tfu.v bossin' the Job tells me lb" Japanese consul has purchased the property and is moving every * '. iek out bet ore refurnishing. Three vanlouds ; 1 hey carted a way?and in a hell of a hurry they w ere. at i lint." "Which way did they m>?" The policeman oblimntrly jerked i: thumb westwards. "They made off, that way." said he. "l.ut where lhc\ ! were hound. I dunno." I'arr fancied he could Im/.ard a shrewd ttuess. lie rait hastily across the avenue and down the side street. And. so running, lie disappeared for a time from human ken. THE HOLE IN THE WALL. iLUiorim: the protests of Mr. Il.vley. I'alria crept along under cover of tiewall to ihe window through which she had watched <I'arr disappear, and climbed through. .lust why she elected to follow him she could hardly have said. She was inside the house before sti<> appreciated thai she had yielded i<? what wus most prohiihly a foolish iuiI Mil so. The first tiling to greet her as she j hurried through the upper linlhvay was tin- ui'initi 11 jLr mask of a dead Japanese huddled up on the floor of the hack , loom: am! turning from this in dread and disgust she ran blindly down tinstairs. Hut she discovered no sign of Captain 1'arr?or indeed of anybody else?and though she stopped at the front door long enough for a hasty glance out into the avenue, the man she sought was by that time several blocks away. Hut this she couldn't know; and believing that he must still he somewhere in the house, she pursued lier Investigations; In the course of which, descending to the cellar, she discovered irrefutable evidence of what Harr had surmised to his own satisfaction, if lie hadn't stopped to verify it, that the I i /* ?' ' ? ? - THE HORRY HKRA _ n . .. mi*wne vault of the Charming house i aid l?eon loot i ll through a breach In ? Uo connecting wall. I Or was It empty altogether? Had i ier quick ears caught tlie sound or a oot&tep beyond that breach? If so, it t rust be Captain Ihirr's beyond a doubt, l 11 the utmost conlhlen- e that thb* ? could prove to he the case, Ylitria J prang lightly through the breach. Instantly a loop of st?nit lines set- ! led over her head and shoulders, pinling both her arms to her sides. An alter followed It and another, half iltehes thrown with deft expertness. before she eotild utter the cry tiwu linked her throat she was hound and lelpless in the power ?vT a sullen mfIii 11 who was deaf to tears and prayers, i m I proceeded on I inly to rope the girl 0 the back of n heavy chair, and then, molt to strike a match and light 1 sputtering fuse. This -done, he moved pilckly out into the adjoining cellar. She needed almost a minute before iho comprehended her danger. Then the vault echoed with her screams, answered by voices from be ond the steel door to the underground >assnge, where Ityley and his nssoci- . ites were at work with the acetylene oreh. , Hut however rapidly It. worked it ould not possibly be swift enough to rompass Patrla's salvation. Of a sudden ihe gtrl stilled her cries, n her struggles >die had freed -one mud from its bonds. .And in the pocket ?f her cent, convenient to that hand u.v the dainlv lilt><- revolver she "had m impulse suatcln-d up on leaving ilua loudoir in Newport the night before. There was just a telrnnee. She wars n air shot, and the fv.se was slow-barn ng. If she could only contrive to break t with a luillet. . . . Working lite weapon with great dill: ally out of lu r pocket, she aimed as ?est she might and fired. Twice she missed.. J'*ut tin* third unlet struck the fuse fairly mul snapped I in I n-.iiii '1 h-Mi tin' revolver slipped from her | icrveless grasp jim! she sunk back uu- I unseinus in her bonds. 1 Tims Pyloy stud the others found hoi I vhen. some ton minutes later, they a ength broke through the stool door. Tho open stir of tisv garden revivelor. I?y tho tiino si oab luvd boon oalb < die listcl rooovorod sulliclently to jtppre istto that Captain J'arr hsid disappeared. !lor last instructi?*ns to IJyioy were d tuple sind diroe! : "The money doesn't matter. But never rest til! you've found Csptam Parr I" THE SANDA1. Luck of ? sort jdayod into the lmnds ?f Captain I'arr that morning. lb' lotiml no difiioiiity about trailing three heavy-laden moving vans across the lower West side to the waterfront. wlioro ho arrived In time even to see t.lio hist of the vans, now empty, whip briskly out of a pier shed and up the street. I.telaying only long enough to note the license number of the vehicle, he darted briskly into the pier shed and at discretion lost himself among its shadows; in which business luck?of ti sort?ngsiin was with him. For he barely escaped being spotted by two partieulnrly grim and repulsive looking young .Japanese, who had nppnr- ! enlJy been posted near the eniratme for the express purpose of preventing espionage. It was a busy place, n-roar with the activities of a multitude of longshoremen. On either side steamers were taking in cargo, with everv indieatiun ?f furious effort to got finished wiili I ho jolt and iiwny. I>111 which was which V Aboard on?* the Chnnning "preparedness" fti,id had hccu slowed and presently would he outward hound: Presently a lull fell in the sound and fury of cargo loading on one side of i he pier. 1'ropuruihms were made lo take in the gangplanks. Dock* lahor- 1 er.s concerned themselves whh the ahies that moored the vessel. lis deepthroated whistle blasted a warn! ig once, twice, and again. Down the pier ran alertly the iwo Japanese v.ho had stood guard near its entrance. As they jumped aboard the last gangplank ! was withdrawn. The vessel began to sheer away from the pier. I'arr hasten. <1 to the nearest opening and waiud there till, overhead, an open cargo port in the ship's painted Hank moved past. At peril of his life j he leaped, caught the lower lip of the i opening, and scrambled aboard, to find i himself in tween-deeks gloom?u :d . definitely committed to the most dos- ; perate adventure of his history. It seemed impossible that lie could have escaped observation. Yet, apparently. lie bad; and that despite the R: '"'V*?r$ & * ' nwiH Patria Pointed < LP, CONWAY, 8. 0. i?ft that, not far distant, u number of liicient, deadly little J a panose doekinnds wore busy stowing cargo at the Dolt est of a boatswain. Kavesdroppiug attentively upon the , onversa!loll of the deckhands, lie | earned nil he needed to kn?w?tilscov- j nil that he had stowed away aboard i lie "Sandal" of Yokohutna, Itoumi for ! Vera Cruz; that she had sailed with j onsldernble suddenness, three days before her sehidulcd Milling date: that she carried passengers of some importance <but these were mot named) and a cargo consisting of arms and uintminitkm for the OaiTttii*4?ta forces; finally, that a treasure of vast value had been brought aboard at the lufct inometit and stored In h strongly guarded stateroom in the otlkeers -quarters. As the freighter drew out to midstream and begun to drop down the vl "*? <, ?? 4-1 I.t ?1 b It I M. . A-A . ? -.1 . . >A?* .... 1 I. inn in*- m i nunuun IIUITI'H IHl (ill OUIIT business mid loft V-he -stowaway to digest.,.Ms Information and formulute Ids plans. The last proved do easy matter. IVhat one man ooukThe expected to accomplish against a shipload was a riddle that baffled Parr's wits for the best part of a long hour. Satisfied that the ('banning treasure had been brought aboard the "Sn'ndal/' and quite ready to helleve that Baron Fluroki and bis pet Mexican. Scuor Juan ?de Lima, had not been actively'(concerned in its theft but bad sailed In -charge of it, he still failed to puzzle .out any feasible way to inform the authorities and cause the detention of the freighter and the arrest of the thieves without sacrificing the neck of Donald Parr. JTmldlod in the shelter of the bales, the young man commanded a view through the cargo port ; and bis thoughtful gaze liad long been lixed up-a that breadth of harbor water slipping ]i:ist so slowly and steadily l-o'orc lie distilled an inspiration from its hue. And even as he began to take cognizance of the fog. Parr heard the jingle 'f signals in the engincroom below his hiding place. And immediately tl.o - ulsin::s of the eng-m-s ceased. For a ittie the "Samlai" drifted with stead!y slackening way. Then the anchor vas dropped, with chain roaring 'trough hawse-holes, and tie4 freighter ' tiled down to wait the lifting of the f? -g. In this combination of circumstances Parr thongln to see'his chance. The ship could not be far from land smd he was a s'roiig swimmer. If lie could slip unseen over the side and win to iIn- sliore, or even lo m friendlier vessel's dt cks. . Willi every precnuMon, he stole out to the itmiti deck un<l?was instantly > spied h.v a barefooted little monkey of ii sailor, whoso shriek of warning rang >111 the Instant his vision comprehend- j d the face of a stranger. Failing in an attempt to sain the side 1 ?his way barred by half a dozen .Inpu- ; iese who seemed veritably to spring tip from between deck seams?l'ar took flight to the bridge deek by wa; of a most convenient companion-lad der; hut gaining it only to thai hi plight nothing bettered; willing lilt I assassins made toward liiia from foi and alt the moment lie appeared. I lis next resort v.*as one of dcsperi. tion. Charging through a stmt root: | door half open to the deek. he slammed bolted it. and swung round to had him self in the wireless room, confronted lei a .Japanese operator who seemed p | lack something of the readiness of ho fellows, since he failed to reeovcr fro:, his surprise before Pari" la I him co\ eiaal with his an: . imic. Plows on ihe panels of the door wen sounding as Parr backed ih t tilth brown man into his chair and with a significant gesture of the pistol com ma tided: "Take my dictation! And. mind you no shenanigan ! I can read your sending by ear!" The operator nodded; his slender, deft fingers gripped keys and switches. His eyes lie kept steadfast to the face of the American while the latter dictated, and the crash and crackle of the spark filled the narrow space with false thunder. When a shattered port behind Parr's head was broken in, and a revolver through the opening stamped a cold v! n<f /?n toiiiolo P ' 1 -1! ?1 1 ' n i>u in n 111- .>>1 1 > j ) j M "11 (IM'lilling, dropped his pistol, and elevated both hands. At the same time the little wireless operator lunged forward from his chair, clipped Parr's waist with two sinewy arms, and hore him to the lloor. The Needle in the Haystack. 1 Tt was mid-afternoon when Patrla'u nmid answered a knock at the door and brought hack to tin* semi-distracted girl an envelope of the Marconi com ffl Out the Freighter. pany. \.: Tearing It open, l'atria read hastily k\\ an unfinished message: Miss Patria Charming, w\\ "Ritz-Carlton, New Yerfc: At . "Fog bound in lower bay aboard Jap* t:ii ancse freight steamer Sandai. Treac- di: ure aboard. Tell Ryley." tli There was no signature; none was Ih needed. Tossing the message to the w; muid, Pntrlu turned In 1'rantlc liaste to the clothing Annie had out on the lie bed preparatory to hanging the gar- <*ii nionts up. <>t "Help me Into this Immediately,** the ,n girl Insisted, milking a selection. "Then, nsi if you can get Mr. Ityley on the tele- i phone, read him that message?and say j .te I've started to answer it lu person, th No?don't ask questions, .lust finish | pli dressing me?and don't bother!** ' m< But before long I'utria interrupted in: her dressing of Iter own voiitton, to (l'? seize the telephone and secure con- ' Ai ncction with a yacht club whose lupus fa were moored Iti the Hudson not fur .l,i from Clnremont. A tnxienh whose chauffeur rlsfcod his cr license for a lady's whim bore her up- ; h? low ti with such expedition that. In less ' fr than twenty minutes from the time | when she had telephoned, she hurried , to down the gangway to a float- heslde 1 whieli waited a luotorhout huilt on rue- : inp lines. Sj Two mechanics were tuning up the ir motor. Iniputieiitly waiting till they ui pronounced it tit, 1'atria refused their h< further services, .lumped into the boat end ordered it east olT. i 111 Not until it was well uwu.v?so far d'sirmt that the foe ha.d blotted tbe *" club landing <\ut si-i> ,-n?did she-1'oel conscious of any le- - ning of nervous tension. Now. at bast?little as she eouid possibly hope for. who must cat ;te blindly over a blind sea for a goal of uncertain whcreabouis?she was doing what she reuhl ; siie was | tiwing to llnd the man who had proved himself never for an ins'ani unreml.N m risk his life in ln r interests. and whose 1!fe. she never douht -d was now more primly imperiled ihan it ever >*< i had hcon. Aral even though ^he were 1o lied him. hy some wild whir! of the wheel of ehaiioe to eonte upon that vessel of 11 Those hundreds which haunted thai f? g hound harbor?what then could sle- do? mic n<?ver stopped to question Iter nbiiily to niil the it::?11 or hindm* his enemies and hers?if she were happily to be permitted to do anything )u ipful. it would only bo when slu? had found this man who (she was now ready to ndmit) meant more to Iyer than all the treasure In the world. It was her business first to find him. then to fret about rescuing him. . . . Once through the Narrows, however, once astray In the lower bay, she perforce slowed down, for very lack of any means of guessing where to turn. And for a spare of time that j seemed many weary hours k she wandered hither and yon over the faee of p that sullen sea, aimlessly, save as she essayed ever and again to trace some e fog warning t?> Its sour*#. In the for- s lorn hope that It might prove to he b the floating prison of her proteetor. Is there a Providence in especial " charge of lovers? Who shall deny the b fact? What else bd ('atria's errant b boat to that quarter of the harbor where lay the Saudai? s 1 She found herself at length staring ' I witli incredulous eyes up at that name 1 lettered in faded gold across the stern ! of an Idle vessel. ; 5 Quite automatically she ^li\it off the | purring of her motor. ruder decreas- ' ing momentum the small lmnt tnovd " quickly round the bull; of the larger. ' while she stared and wondered 1?? si e * no curious head peering down at imr 1 over that high rail. II seemed her approach must have ' been unnoticed. She heard never a ! sound, saw never a sign of any human * f thing about the freighter. And present Iv she swung her almost wnyless ( craft in under the side of the an- i chared ship, and, Rising, fished with a boat hook for a loop of cable that hung 1 untidily from an open port. Catching " this, she made painter fast, and with s little difficulty scrambled up the side 1 and in through the port?to receive a 51 grinning welcome from half a dozen * fa panose sailors, who had boon pa- 1 ticntly waiting. ' i . Her disgust was as extreme as her efforts to escape were unavailing. She ' was promptly seized, if not ungently, J ' and oseorted up from the lower deck j tf? be presented to the captain at the 11 font of the bridge companion ladder. ^ From this personage she received a { courteous bow, a sharp scrutiny, scant consideration. For, though he had an intelligent face and looked ami carried himself like a man of education, he refused flatly to understand English or J to regard her as anything more than some strange stray of the sea. A few brustjue commands In his Japanese, and I'atria was led otY to he locked up in a small, neat stateroom overlooking the upper deck. If they had counted on any lark of courage and resource as an Infirmity 1 of nor sex, those Japanese had rook- j < J oned without Patrla. She was no soon-1 ' j or alone than alert, to find a way of j > I escape. The door was stout and stout- < I ly locked, but the shuttered port seemed a frail barrier to one of the < least determination. I llefore attacking it, however, she < took the precaution of slipping off her j 1 sports skirt, for the greater freedom j 1 of her slender, knickerbockered logs. If j ' by any chance she should be suffered | to escape the stateroom. > Then waiting till she heard no sound ' of any voice or footfall on the deck be- < yond the shutter, she shattered this with two sharp blows of u stool?and j ' s U?e opening in a tAvijiair. ti tnstrut more tud she 1i:k1 I^ujumI ion the rail and ?uh poised to dive, i ofioer made for her as she hosllod there transiently to measure the U daneo t<? the water. Iltit his anus, ^ at would have drawn her back in eir embrace, hugged only air?1'atria is already under water. l'i'" wIiIiIh two Yards of Pin: \ iniiv M|/ ? *? ? %, ? ? r inotorlmut, struck out, and was mblng its gunwales when several her splashes alongside gave g that ti e pursuit had taken to , cheerfully as she. In this extremity the boathook served r well, Rim clouted more than one 1 ?se-slmven. browidsh p??!I with it, and f anted Its i*>:m against the chest of < are than env nbo :*oug?,t to follow >r over the side of her 1100. boat here she eotild get tlM' eug-.'iC going, ad when that happen, d. >h? hot a ste of what Japan'* resentment {glit mean. For, as she sheered off and her small aft gathered speed, a shower of hul- J (h spattered round It, fired from eighter's decks. Put tlioir aim was Indifferent; Patrfa i io (|tilck)y became lost In the fog. I Sunset and Clearing Skies. In a piteliy dark compartment of the d iimlai's bold, wrists <?nd ankles in i oms, Donald Purr lay in an extreme tease little tempered by the fact that. 1 was hut seinheonseious. A blow on the head during the scufile i the wireless room had proved mer 'ound the Body of a Dead Japanese. Ifii 11y anodynous. For he had 1 ?? ?*?? everely manhandled before Ironed and nprlsoned. Now ho had knowledge neither of ^ is w hereabouts?save that lie was not ar from I?l 1K"? or of how long he had tin there insensible. Vaguely lie apprehended that tlte hip was once more under steam. But! e suffered too inueh to reason from his ihat llie fog must have lifted. . . . It was, iu fact, only Just lifting at hat sunset hour. And as the evening ive/.e grained strength and swept cleat i:e face of the Sea. it showed those n the Sandai'.s bridge tlte slender, raerful, while shape of a Naval lieer\e cutler standing between her and ^ he open sea. Aboard the cutter I'atria dimming ndicatcd the freighter with a trcnitling hand. A moment later a two-pounder spoke rom the cutter's deck, and its "iuai Iropped neatly beneath the Sarifk.i*! T" " lows. Now tho freighter had drifted almost Inngerously near inshore during thai iftcrnoou of fog; while the cutter wa> . itill well out. She would need several m uinutes in which to lay her boats dongsidc the .lapaiicse?more minute.* >y several tiuin the Japanese would equire in which to land her own boats >n the nearby, lowlying shore. And he crew of the freighter, no more than icr passengers, desired to become prismors of the United Stall's government. There followed, consequently, something of a serjuahle aboard the SandaL in I her boats wi?re lannehed quietly 11id in sailorly fashion, and were aettiilly headed shoreward and pulling fast ?y the time the cutter's were well started toward their destination. I.ut before tho Japanese abandonee lie freighter, Donald Purr was hriell> ntertained by a fugitive caller. A manhole r.bovti liis head was sudlenly opened. An active little ofhee i dipped down tlie iron ladder to tin. [dates whereon the American rest oil Without noticing Parr in any way, the ittlcer moved olf into the gloom, and for a moment was busy in some mysterious fashion. He reappeared, pursued by a noise of gushing water warmed briskly up the ladder, redosed the> manhole. Parr moved uneasily In his irons Cold water was swiftly enveloping hfrw i)ody in a pool. Then abruptly he iU? lerstood, and with desperate effort got upon bis feet. Ills tongue clave to tin: I'Oof of his initio I* .....i to- *- -1 nun ma ueuri W54* like a mad tiling in his breast. For the son-eoeUs hud been opened u Bcuiiie ihe ship?and he was penned In there to die by drowning in tli ilnrk. . . . When ihe Nnynl Kcsorvo men opened [lie manhole, i!i?\v found I'nrr clinging - ' 1