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The Pool j!
H of Flame jl
iff LOUIS JOSEPH VANCE
:. f Olustrations by r'Nworth YouoJ ;
jj^^Oopyri^hTlWi, by L- '< -1 :h Vane
8YNOPSI8.
CHAPTER I.?The story opens at
Monte Carlo with Col. Terence O'Rourke
In his hotel. O'Rourke. a military tree
lance and something c* a gambler, is
dressing for appearance In the rertaurant
below when the sound of a girlish voice
singing attracts his attention. Leaning
out on the balcony he sees a beautiful
girl who suddenly disappears. He rushes
to the corridor to see a neatly gowned
form enter the elevator and pass from
CHAPTER II.?O'Rourke's mind la
filled with thoughts of the girl, and when
he goes to the gaming table he allows hit
remarkable winnings to accumulate Indifferently.
He notices two men watching
him. One is the Hon. Bertie Glynn,
while his companion is Viscount Des
lYebes, a noted duelist. When O'Rourke
l?avea the table the viscount tells him hs
represents the French government and
teat be has been directed to O'Rourke as
a man who would undertake a secret
mission.
CHAPTER m.?At his room O'Rourke,
who had agreed to undertake the mission,
awaits the viscount. O'Rourke finds a
mysterious letter in his apartment. The
viscount arrives, hands a sealed package
to O'Rourke. who Is not to open It until
on the ocean. He says the French government
will pay O'Rourke 25.900 franca
for his sendees. A pair of dainty slippers
are seen protruding from under a
l- doorway curtain and the viscount charges
^ O'Rourke with having a spy secreted
w there.
% CHAPTER TV.-When the Irishman
?> goes to his room he finds there the owner
of the mysterious feet. It Is bis wife,
Beatrix, from whom he had run away a
year previous. They are reconciled, and
/ opening the letter ne had received, he
finds tnat a law firm In Rangoon. India,
offers him 100.000 pounds for an Indian
Jewel known as the Pool of Flame and
I ^ left to him by a dying friend. O'Rourke
f, tells his wife that it is in the keeping
V- of e friend named Chambret fn Algeria.
CHAPTER V.?O'Rourke is forced te
fight a duel with the viscount The braggart
nobleman te worsted la the combat |
and acts the poltroon.
CHAPTER VI.?The loral wife bid*
O'Rourke farewell and he promises to
soon return with the reward offered tor
the Pool of Flame. He discovers both
GJynn and the viscount on board the
jfhlp which takes him to Algeria.
I CHAPTER VTT.-Chambret has left Algeria
and O'Rourke has to rain a military
detachment going across the desert
to reach his friend. As he finds the latter
there is an attack by bandits and
Chambret 1* shot.
CHAPTER VIII.?Chambret dies telhn*
O'Rourke that he has left the Pool or
Flame with the governor general of Algeria.
He gives the colonel a signet ring
at the sight of which he says the official
will deliver over the jewel.
CHAPTER TX.-O'Rourke is attacked
bv Glynn and the viscount who ransack
his luggage, but he worsts them in the
conflict
CHAPTER X ?When he arrives at Algeria
the Irishman finds the governor
general away. He receives a note from
Pes Trebes making a mysterious appointment.
CHAPTER XI.?The viscount tells
O'Rourke that he has gained possession
of the jewel by stealing it from the safe
j of the governor general. He does not,
i however, know who has offered the ref
ward for it. He suggests a duel with
rapiers, the victor to get that Information
and the jewel.
CHAPTER XII.?In the duel O'Rourke
masters his adversary and secures possession
of the Pool of Flame.
CHAPTER XIII. ? The efforts of
O'Rourke are now directed toward speedily
getting to Rangoon with the Jewel
Vio atnrt* hv shin.
* "chapter xiv.?He finds the captain
of the vessel to be a smuggler who tries
to steal the jewel from him.
CHAPTER XV.?The Jewel Is finally secured
by the ship's captain and O'Rourke
f >. escaoes to land.
CHAPTER XVI.?"With the aid of one
i Danny and his sweetheart, O'Rourke recovers
the Pool of Flame.
CHAPTER XVII. ? O'Rourke again
forms his plans to pursue his Journey to
Rangoon.
CHAPTER XVHL?On board ship ones
? more a mysterious lady appears who pusv
ales and Interests the Irishman.
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CHAPTER XIX.
?
The wanderer had come upon Mrs.
Prynne but once since he had boarded
the Panjnab. That morning, himself
early astir because of bis vague
misgivings, he had discovered her on
the hurricane deck of the liner; an inconspicuous,
slight figure in the shadow
of a life-boat, leaning upon the
rail and gazing with (he fancied)
troubled eyes, out and across the
waste below Ismalla.
Though she muat have been conscious
of nearing footsteps, she had
not stirred, and he had passed on,
^ gaining but a fugitive glimpse of a
K profile sweetly serious; nor had she
jm ' appeared either at breakfast or lunchi
eon. A circumstance which led Mm
to surmise that she did not conrt observation:
an idiosyncrasy which
1 ? ?-rr m+T-an era In wnman
| ? Kcuieu ? _
ly bo fair.
f He told himself that she wore an
/ . elr of w&tchtalness, of vague expeoxxcy,
aa though she, like bimsell,
Bru^red some untoward mishap; that I
* tavwe had the manner of one definitely
vjUftpreheHBlve, constantly on guard
jainst some unforeseen peril.
*e8? Now, he asked himself, what could
'lid be? What threatened her? And
Spr*y?
He dimly promised himself the
pleasure of her acquaintance, relying
the rapid intimacy that springs up !
between strangers on a long voyage,
l with a still more Indefinite intention
. of putting himself at her service In
gny cause that she might be pleased
: name, provisionally: she mnst not
I A ? * with his plans tor reaching
^A "In ninety daya"
flk *t he was hoping to find
^tl dinner; bat though the
W 0t r vu nell fc*
f
to see ner in tne saloon, at either the, -j
captain's, the chief officer's or the r
doctor's table; nor, so far as he could
determine, was Bhe taking the air on y
deck. Was It possible, then, that he j
had been right, that she had a reason
equally as compelling as his own for v
secluding herself? Or, was It simply n
(and Infinitely more probably) that
Mrs. Prynne was Indisposed, an ener- w
vated victim of excessive heat? a
The latter conjecture proved ap-' o:
parently the right one, Mrs. Prynne: B(
falling to appear during the two fol- b
lowing days, while the Panjnab was n
rocking down the Red Sea channel; ! a
and O'Rourke grew Interested enougn ci
(be bad little else to occupy bis mind,
for a duller voyage be had never c
known) to give Danny permission to .* ;
pursue bis Inquiries: with an injunc-;
tion, however, prohibiting too lavish j
an expenditure of the boy's wealth of "i
affection. Whereupon Danny return- n
ed with the Information that the mistress
of Cecile, the maid, was suffer- ci
lng from heat exhaustion. s!
This was entirely reasonable.**^
O'Rourke accepted the demolition of
his airy castles of Romance, laughed
at himself. In part was suoeessful in
putting the woman out of mind;
doubtless, in time, be would have done
so altogether, had not the lady chosen
to take the air the night that the
Panjnab negotiated the Straits of \
Bab-el-Mandeb. For on that same \
night, O'Rourke, himself wakeful, was
minded to ett up and watch the lights
of Perlm Island heave Into view.
O'Rourke, In a deck-chair on the
starboard side, well cloaked in the
shadow of the deck above, watch- J
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utuvi iwvocu^via, vuu u/ vuv} v
quiet their chatter, yawn, stretch and
slip below to stuffy staterooms.
He suffered a dreamy eye to rove 2
where it would, greedy of the nighfa
superb illusion.
Four bells?two o'clock?chimed ,
upon his consciousness like a physical
shock. He verified the hour by his
watch and, reluctantly enough, agreed
that it was time he got himself to
bed. He half rose from his chair, then F
sank back with an inaudible catch of
his breath. Without warning the apparition
of a white-clad woman had dl
Invaded the promenade deck. For an P'
Instant he hardly credited his eyes,
then, with a nod of recognition, he ^
Identified Mrs. Prynne.
Unquestionably unconscious of his Q1
presence in the shadow, she fell to ^
pacing to and fro. Now and again, lo
the stopped, and with chin cradled in
her small hands, elbows on the rail, ~
watched the approaching cliffs of
Arabia; then, with perhaps a sigh, returned
to her untimely constitutional.
Partly because he had no wish to
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(lad to watch unobserved (he had a
rare eye for beauty, the O'Rourke),
the wanderer sat on without moving, M
gtlrred only by active curiosity. The
strangeness of her appearance upon 5*
fleck at such an hour fascinated his sl
i.. agination no less than her person
held his eye. He gave himself over at
to vain and profitless speculation. . tr
. . Why. he wondered, 6hould she
keep to her cabin the greater part of ai
the evening, only to take the air when tr
none mi?ht be supposed to observe tll
her? H
Why. If not to escape such obssrva- br
tion? Then, he told himself, he must fa
ed
be right In his Supposition that sh?
had something to fear, someone to w
avoid. What or whom? What was it 111
all, what the mystery that, as he
watched her, seemed to grow, to cling
about her like some formless, im? 111
palpable garment ?
Events conspired to weave the man
inta the warp and woof of her affairs;
more quiCKiy man ne couia grasp mo
reason (or his sudden action, he found
himself a-foot and dashing aft at top P1
speed. But an instant gone Mrs
Prynne had passed him, unmolested
and wrapped in her splendid i6ola- l*1
tlon; and then from the after part of ^
the deck he had heard a slight and
guarded cry of distress, and a small ?'
scuffling sound. hi
In two breaths he was by her side ^
and found her struggling desperately
in the arms of a lascar?a deck-hand 1X
on the 6teamer. fa
At first the strangeness of the busi- "
ness so amazed O'Rourke that be
paused and held his hand, briefly
rooted in action. For although it was B
apparent that she had been caught off I
her guard, wholly unprepared against E
assault, and while she struggled fierce- B
ly to break the lascar's hold, the worn- B
an still uttered no cry. A single |j
scream would have brought her aid;
yet she held her tongue. *3
The two, the woman's 6llght, white K
figure and the lascar's gaunt and sin- I
ewy one, strained and fought, swaying k
silently in the shadows, tensely, with B
the effect of a fragment of some dls- K
ordered nightmare. But then, as the
lascar seemed about to overpower his
victim, O'Rourke, electrified, sprang
upon the roan's back. With one strong
arm deftly he embraced the fellow, an
elbow beneath his chin forcing his
bead up and back. With the other
hand O'Rourke none too gently tore
away an arm encircling the woman.
Then wrenching the two apart, he
sent a knee crashing into the small of
the lascar's back, all but breaking him
in two. and so flung him sprawling
Into the scuppers.
Without a word the man slid upon
his shoulders a full half-dozen feet,
while O'Rourke had a momentary
glimpse of his face in the moonlight
?dark-skinned and sinister of expression
with Its white, glaring eyeballs.
Then, in one bound, he was on his
feet again and springing lithely back to
the attack: and as he came on a jagged
gleam of moonlight ran like lightning
down the sinuous and formidable
length of a, kris, most deadly of
knives.
OTOoatke tell back a neee mm
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if own hands were empty; he had
<t'ilng but naked flats and high course
to pit against the laacar and his
rls. Keenly alert, he threw himself
it ) a pc se of defence.
1 :* CTto.irke had forgotten the
c. ...in; it was enough that he had
r.de possible her escape, and he had
o thought other than she had fled. It
as. therefore, with as much surprise!
s relief that he caught the glimmer
f her white figure as she thrust herelf
before him and saw the lascar
ring up In the middle of a leap, his
ose not an inch from the muzzle of
n army Webley of respect-compelling
allber.
Simultaneously, he heard her voice,
lear and incisive' If low of tone:
Drop that knife!"
The krls shivered upon the deck.
"Faith!" murmured the Irishman,
and what manner of woman Is this,
ow?"
The lascar stood as rigid as though
arven^but of stone, long, gaunt legs
bining softly brown beneath his cool,
ound Her Struggling Desperately In
the Arme of a Lascar.
stzllng white cummerbund, the up>
er half of his body lost In the shadow
! the deck, a gray blur standing for .
la turban.
O'Rourke stepped forward, with a
nick movement kicking the krls over*
sard, and would have selied the felw
but that the woman intervened.
8he said decisively: "If you please
-no."
Bewildered, O'Rourke hesitated. "I
eg your pardon?" he said in conis!
on.
She did not reply directly; her atntlon
was all for the lascar, whom
jr revolver still covered. To him,
3o!" she said sharply, with a slgniflint
motion of the weapon.
The lascar stepped back, with a sine
wriggle losing himself In the dense
ladows.
O'Rourke fairly gasped amazement
the woman, who on her part, reeated
slowly until her back touched
e railing. She remained very quiet
id thoroughly mistress of herself, beaying
agitation only b.v slightly
ilckened breathing and cold pallor,
er eyes racked the deck or either
ind: it was. olaln >:.al she had no
1th in the lascar. ..er::r apprebend1
his return: ye: h?. r ^pleudid conol
of her nerves evoked the Irish
:an open admiration.
"Faith!" he cried, breaking the
inse silence, " 'tis yourself shames
e, madam, with the courage of ye!"
She flashed him a glance, and
ughed slightly. "Thank you," she
(turned. "I'm sure I don't know
here I should be now but for you."
" 'Twas nothing at all. But ye'll
irdon me for suggesting that ye
ive made a mistake, madam."
"A mistake?" she echoed; and then,
loughtfully: "No, I shouldn't call It
iat." ;
"Letting him go, I mean. Neither
1 us, I believe, could well Identify
m. When ye report this outrage to :
e captain, whom will ye accuse?" i
"I shall accuse no one," she said j
rtetly, "for I shan't report the af- |
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"Ye will not? " ne crieu, asiounaeo. i
"Indeed, I am quite sincere: I shall <
do nothing whatever about it It is,
moreover, a favor which I shall ask '
of you. to say nothing of the matter i
to anyone."
fVPnnfto hagltotari lltiwllllnp fft he- I
lieve that he had heard aright. j1
I "Believe me," she was saying earn1
estly, "I have good reason for mak* i
ing a request so unaccountable to 1
you."
"But?but?Mrs. Prynne?!"
"Oh, you know me then?" she inter- '
rupted sharply. And her look was 1
curious and intent.
"I?'tis?faith!" O'Rourke stammer- i
ed. He felt his face burn. "Me valet i
told me," he confessed miserably, i
" Tls a bit of flirtation he's been having
with your maid, Cecile, I believe,
madam." i!
"Ah, yes." She seemed unacconnt- i
aby relieved. "You, then, are Colonel
O'Rourke?" i
He bowed. "Terence O'Rourke, i
madam, and at your service, believe
me."
"I am very glad," she said slowly, i
eyeing him deliberately, "that, since
I had to be aided, it came through one i
of whom I have heard so much?" I
"Faith, Mrs. Prynne?!"
"And I thank you a second time,
very heartily!" She offered him her I
hand, and smiled bewltchingly.
" Tie embarrassing me ye are." be
protested. "Faith, to be thanked
twice for so slight a service! I can 1
only wish that I might do more?"
It la possible." sbe said, apparent*
ly not In the least displeased by his
presumption? "It is possible that I
nos.v take you at your word. Colonel
O'Kourke.'
In her eyes, intent upon his, he i
fancied that he recognized an amused
flicker, with, perhaps, a trace of deep* i
er emotion: the kindling Interest of a
woman In a strong man, with whose
signals he was not unfamiliar. Pride
and his conceit stirred In his breast.
" Twould be the delight of me life."
; he told her In an ecstasy. .
"Don't be too sure, I warn you,
colonel." Her manner was now arch,
her smile entirely charming. "It might
be no light service I should require of
you."
"Ye couldn't ask one too heary. .
I. . But 'tis weary ye are, Mrs.
Prynne?" he Inquired, solicitous. ;
"Very." There was In fact an in* |
definite modulation of weariness In
her yoloe. "I'm only a woman," she 1
said faintly, with a little gesture of *
deprecation; "and my ways are hedged '
about with grare perils?" I
"Tls the O'Rourke would gladly ]
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what ye will."
She lilted her gaze to his, coloring
divinely there in the moon-glamor. He
looked into her curiously bewitching
eyes and saw there an appeal and a
Btrange little tender smile. Her head
was so near his shoulder that he was
aware of the vague, alluring perfume
of her hair. Her scarlet lips parted .
. . And he became suddenly aware
that It behooved him to hold himself
well In hand. It were an easy matter
to Imagine himself swept off his
feet. Into a whirl of Infatuation, with
a little encouragement. And he was
not unsophisticated enough to fall to
see that encouragement would not be
lacking; If he dhose to recognize It
"Faith," he told himselt "I'm thinkIng
'twould be wiser for me to take
to me heels and run before . . "
He vras spared the Ignominious necessity
of flight In two breaths they
showed two very different pictures.
Now they stood alone on the dead
while deck, alone with the night, the
sea, the atari, the alienee and the
moonlight: OTtourke a bit dismayed,
and wijy, but aa curious as any man
In audi a case; the woman apparently
yielding to a sudden fascination for
him, swaying a little toward him as
If inviting the refuge of his arms. .
. . And now she started away,
clutching at her heart, with a little
choking cry of alarm; while beneath
them the vessel was still quivering
with a harsh yet deadened detonation
like an explosion, together with a
grinding crash and shriek of riven
steel somewhere deep In the hold.
Inexpressibly dismayed, they stared
with wide and questioning eyes at one
another, through a long minute filled
with an Indescribable uproar: a succession
of shocks and thumps In the Interior
of the vessel gradually diminishing
In severity while. In a pandemonium
of clamorous voices, the liner,
like a stricken thing, hesitated in Its
southward surge, then slowly limped
into a dead tuut on tn? laoe 01 u?
waters. . . .
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Bursting Cabbage Heads Made
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Bucyrus, 0, June 9:?John Stahley
J of the Stahley Transfer line claims
i to have the champion garden and
vegetables. He complains that the
cabbages grow so fast that the heads
burst with such loud reports as to ,
keep him awake at nights. The
nnlif?p hnt.hprpfi him about the shoot
i ing in his backyard and would not
I believe that it was cabbages until
! they investigated, themselves. His
tomatoes grew so fast and high that
he could not get poles enough to
support them, and as a result he lost
several hundred bushels of them by
| their falling over on the ground and
bursting.
| He planted the lettuce one evenj
ing after he quit work and had a
J mess for early morning breakfast
| next morning, but the leaves grew
so fast and large that he could not
use them without running them
through a feed cutter,
j His radishes were so- juicy and
, tender that the neighbors complained
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