The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 17, 1917, Page SIX, Image 6
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NOVELIZATION OF THE MOTIONNAME.
PRODUCED fOR THE INTERN)
UNDER THE DJRECTfON OY
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THE CAST. ,
' MRS. VERNON CASTLE as
Patria Charming. ,
MILTON SILLSas Donald Parr. ,
WARNER OLAKD as Baron ]
Huroki. }
DOROTHY GREEN as Fanny
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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.
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"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.
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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 '
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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? .
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"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
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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
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THE HORRY HKRA
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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.
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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. '
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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
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