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OREGON CITY KNTKHPHWK I'lMHAV. NKI'TIIMUKU 4.101 1 V .me Lo wej O'Hearfs By Louis Joseph Vance CHAPTER XV. Ths Masks Vole. ror t matter of twelv hours th foe, laadan, dank, vlsco, M Inaxor eM m ths dominion of svll. bad wrmtpad th world In an mbracs m foul ud Doitoui aa lb coll of sums rwt. grey, slimy serpent. Through tu slugilab fold th pon Jarova, power-Impelled lifeboat crept t a mail's pao. It item t irtlnf and rolltnf back from altbar tank a heavy haartad of gray. In tba bows a young woman rested 'la a atata of seml-eihauatton, bar sy eloaad. ba bead pillow d on a cork bait llfa-preservar, bar sodden gar ments modaled cloly to tba alendar body tbat waa vr and again abakea front bead to feat with tba strength of a long, abhddartag respiration. Baatad on tba naaraat thwart, Alan Law, cbtn In band, watcbed ovr the reat of tbta woman wbom ba loved with a grimly bopeleaa solicitude. Ha aa In no happier cm than aba, so far aa physical comfort want ba was la woraa, slnca ba might not reat Premonition of mlifortuna darkened his baart with Ita lmpaneirabla badow. In tba slam Ton Parens presided morosely orar tba steering grar; and Law was no mora Jealously heedful of his s-wastbaart than Barcus of tba heavy-duty motor tbat chugged away so purposefully at Ita bustneea of drlv- Sing tba boat heaven knw-wbr, I Lacking at onca a compass, all no- Itlon vkatsoaTsr of tba sun's bearings, and any Immediate bopa of tba fog lifting or cbanca bringing them either I to land or to rescus by soma larger and less comfortless craft. Barcus steered mainly through force of bsblt ui eaitwaier man s instinctive reel-, log tbat do boat under way should aver In any conceivable circumstance ba without a band at tba helm. It bad seemed Impossible tbat it could long escape repetition of the disaster, but somehow, It always did escape, and tbat by a wlda margin; never onca had It passed near enough to another ressel to sea It An" now for more than an hour tba silence bsd been uncannily constant, broken only by tba rumble of the mo tor, the muted lisp ot water slipping down the side, the suck and gurgle ot the wake. Forebodings no less portentous than Law's crawled In the mind ot Barcus. It waa as likely as not that the life boat waa traveling straight out to sea. And gasoline tanks can and oftentimes do become as empty as an official weather prophet's promise of fair weather for a holiday. More than this, Mr. Barcus waa a confirmed skeptic In respect of ma rine motors; on terms of long and Intimate experience with the ways of ;- "'-J.f '- 'mJjr 'sl mswm And for several seconds longer th tillms strangled tbalr spirits in Us rulMcM graap. Tben of a sadden a cry shrilled through the fug, so Dear at band ttist It md scarcely mora distant than over th side: -Ahoy! Help! Ahoy there! Help Bo Insistent, so argent ass Its sc rew that, coupled with the surprise, It brought tba three as on to their feet, all a tremble, their eye seeking one another's face, than shifting un easily aaay. What can It bar Rosa whispered. aghast, shrinking Into AJan's ready arm. "A woman," Barcus put In harshly. "Judith." tba girl nioaued. Alan shook himself together. "Ira possible!" ba contended. "I saw ber go down . . ." "Tbat doesnl prove she didn't corns op." Barrua commented acidly. "Ahoy! MotorboatalHMHy! Help!" "And that," Barcus pursued sail If. "Just prove she did come up blame the luck! Alive shs Is. and kicking; stand clear. An able-bodied pair of lungs was back ot tbat ball, my friend; and you needn't tell me I dont know the dulcet accents ot that angelic contralto!" Without heeding him. Alan cupped banda to mouth and sejt sn answer ing cry ringing through the murk: "Ahoy I Where are youT Where away?" "Here on the reef half drowned perishing with chill" "How does my voice bear?" Alan called back. "What the dickens do you carer Barcus interpolated susplcluosly. "To pert." the response rang through the fog. "Starboard your helm and come tn slowly!" "Righto! Half a minute!" Alan re plied reassuringly. "Like hell!" Mr. Barcus muttered in his throat ss be Jumped down Into the engine pit snd bent over the fly-wheel. Leaping on the forward thwart and balancing himself perilously near the gunwale, Alan strained his vision vainly against the opacity ot the fog. "Can't make out anything," be grumbled, looking back. "Start her up but slow's the word and 'ware reef!" "Nothing doing," Barcus retorted curtly. "The motto Is now 'Full speed astern!' as you must know." "O come! We can't leave a woman out there tn a fix like that!" "Can't we? Tou watch!" Barcus grunted malevolently, rocking the heavy flywheel with all his might; for the motor bad turned suddenly stub born. "Alan!" Rose pleaded, laying a hand upon- bis sleeve. "Think what it means! I know It sounds heartless of me and It's my own sister. But you know how mad she is wild with ha tred and Jealousy. If you take her Into this boat. It's your life or hers!" "If we leave her out there," Alan retorted, shaking his arm impatiently free, "it's her life on our heads!" At this Juncture the motor took charge of the argument, ending it in summary fashion. With a smart ex plosion in the cylinder, it started up unexpectedly, at one and the eame time almost dislocating the arm of There's nothing to go br arpt the bar possibility that the rf she spoke of may ba Norton's. It doesn't sm poaelbl. but a msy ha mad tbat much southing. In that rasa we're about three miles off the main land, somtwber In th neighborhood of K slams Island, a llttls, rocky, deso late bump of earth. Inhabited uialuly by 8ahnno." Th girl wrung ber band. "Hut bow could Judith get there and with bar men and ammunition?" 1hu1 ask me. (Jotug on my sspe rlnc with th lady, I'd be willing to bet that she was picked up by th steamer that ran ue down, and pro- reeded to maks a prti of It or try to. One thing's certain sb must have found or stolen boat from somebody; they coulJnt hsv mad Norton's reef by swimming It's too .-v:';..vv-frj.vf i' , ber sh lingered npon th snd. In th mouth of th shatter b bad se lected for ber, staring hungrily out on the sblmtuarlng sea that, now wholly dlveaied of Ita shroud, smiled up t lha heavens, whoa saiphlr face It nilmirtd. a fair and stt of seem ing as though It bad nr ild a heartless tragedy. Flowly It darksnad a the sapphire above grew darker, blending Inaan- slbly Into rare ultramarine with the slow decline of the sun. by whose al titude above the borlion the day bad not more than ninety minutes to ma. And she thought drowsily that If that sun sank without bar learning that ber lovsr lived. It would not rla again upon a world tenanted by Hose Trine. It waa not true, aha told herself, that people never die ot broken baarta. She knew that, wer h taken from I sr. sh could no longer live. . . . And sleep overwhelmed bar ssd denly. Ilka n great, dark etoud . . . But Ita dominion over bar faculties waa not of long duration. Slowly, heavily, mutinously, she wss rescued rom lis nirvana cam to her sens with an ffct of on who merga from soms vast place of blsrkneas and terror, to And Barcus kneeling ovar and gingerly but persistently shaking ber by tba shoulder. And then shs sat up with a cry of mystified compassion; for In the brief time that be bad been absent It bad not been more than an hour Mr. Bar cus had most unquestionably been se verely used. pietr numbers tie wss everWae m lalnkllng. sod bad bis fsre grwand brutally Into the saud wbll bis bands I wsre snsde fast wlib stout rope behind bis back. And wb) be . It was to And, aa ba bad sBlklpalad. that Jtoa' resistance bad U0 s fulll tslnly with bs bonds As for Ho, sb wld to ktiesg'b la strussM" lrtr-e bad tica lo !. Wben be (Miked ber war be saw hr ei')ullle fonl umoarred br ear lln of fear or doubt, sharer rlv4 asolusl the ilarkn ot the fts'n flood ltr Utel a bis own; she, too. waa rsptlva, bef sale wllhout a treia-ir IraierMd Uio band bound like bis, the bug and ae rleaa paw of oue of Judith's rrw rns elly clamped upon bar sboulder They were granted lime to eirhange no more than one deilrlng glance when a curt laugh fairly chilled the blood la Mr. Herrua. and be swung sharply between bla two guards to confront Judith Trine. Tba woman he ssw at first glance, waa In one of ber moat dangerous moods If, Barcus menially qualified, thar was pin to rhmxe between bar mooils. But now, beyond dispute, she eihlbllsd a countenance nw la bis aiperlsnre with bar, and on well cal culated to appaU. Her face was bloodless, even as bar lip wer while with the curb she put j upon ber passion. Iter eyes acre lurid I with the glare of rage approaching mania Her bands trembled, ber Hps quivered, all ber acttona wsre abrupt, with nervousness. I He wss by no means poor spirited. but b shrank openly from ths luck ' sh gsve him, and waa rellived wben sbs, with a sneer, passed him by and I plantsd herself squarely before ber Sister. ' "Well?" she demanded brusquely. "How much longer do you think I'm ' going to tolerate your Interference Ysnked Him Off to His Cell. far. That's the answer; they were picked up, stole a boat, and piled it up on the reef." "And there's no hope I" "Only of the fog relenting. If we could make the mainland and get help . . ." His accents died away Into a discon solate silence that was unbroken for upwards of an hour. So slowly the current bore the life boat toward the beach and so still the tide that Barcus never appreciated they were within touch of any land until the bows grounded with a slight Jar and a grating sound. With a cry of incredulity he leaped to his feet "Land, by all that's lucky!" and stooping, lent a hand to the girl, aiding ber to rise. Hardly had Rose bad time to com prehend what bad happened, whon Barcus was over the side and wres tling with the bows, dragging the boat He bad acquired a long cut over one ' Xu poor little fool! H6w many more eye, but shallow, upon which blood. , lessons wilt you require before realls had dried, together with a bruised and that I mean to have my way, and swollen cheek tbat was bsdly. that you'll cross me only to suffer scratched to boot. And what simple 1 for Itr articles of clothing remained to him. I The courage of the other girl won eftor his strenuous experiences of the' ! the unstinted admiration of Mr. Bar- shining flood lo lis far borlsnn. He mil-! thai already th wslers bsd rWea mora than an Im h. Ilumt lrd irrfl In bis Inrur ly that rsdUnt ralin that dwelt upon hr. be ventured diffidently: "lloee Mtas Irtne-" Khe turned ber bead and found th heart lo smile. "Itoae," she rorrwtad gently. "I'm sorry." be said which was not si all wbal be bad meant to say, "I've done my bL I suppose li s wrong to give up but they've made It too much for ids, this time." "I know," ab said gently. "Tou" be sismmeied "you're hot afraid r "There is nothing to frsr." she said, "but death. . . ." "Then." ba said more bravely, after a time th water bow ass near bis Chill "good br good luck!" "Not yet. dear friend." shs returned, "not yet." Hut ths sun waa perilously close upon th rim of the world Hut a llltl tltn. and It would be till hi He closed hi eye to shut out th vision The with bis lips; It seemed Strang that 70,000 RUSSIANS TAKEN REPOR CINWANt Till OP HQ VlCTOO OVgR rOHCM Of CAsj AT ALTINITIIN iwo mini pusoxrits crujn Auauiaa In fcs Vera Capture f VVersw-.Am,M isdar Dinisr fl eport r RwmIsn Vlclwif( IN WAMHINilTll.V. HU ft J. . . ilelurr st Alt inlrli,. In k.,? 0H prtMHiers. tin linln.g v k-J oiiiinslHtllig (eht'tsU, Sam Uki. . rrxired toO.r to tin. ii rniaa rnnii lierlln by wlrrlias ia H . ' I. I. Tim dlsfslrh aars ' ' "Of Ariel r'Mir1 if llw vli'L.iy gt Irmlrln shows that It Waa ena r, er than known Mutm. llir. srmr ors aerw aiinllilllsled. H..- ly lliiMisaiid prlaonrra arm .ik-,, rioting two roinniandlliR geiirrali, ofrtrrrs and lh ioinilela aMlliry Hi Itusaian army." I'AltlH, a Umdon. Hepi. A Home dlialrh to the Temps tavs Is Itiissian tiitorr oer th Aiutni,( ( the liallclan alilx waa brllllaii, that IU rUhl wins of the Austrian army bu beeu derUltely turned and nit 0 plrt-ea. leavlug 3u oun prlaoin-ra In the hanila of tba vlotor on the Vistula front wln-n the slsns rriroiintrrvd th Austrian rft wins, lb result wsa eolneah,it unrer. lain, but th arrttal of lmt'r lant r Infoneinerit riikhl, thn Ituniana lo lake a vigorous offelislve and rroutu of II. slow. ImtUcsb,. deac.nL 1--' W ,r.e w.ter ... now almost l.vel ..,,,,, , ,.. ,, lost forty-eight hours, bad been re-J duced to even greater simplicity; bis shirt, for example, now lacked a sleeve' that bad been altogether torn away' at the shoulder. "No!" he told her, as soon as beeaw, ber wits were awake once more "don't waste time pitying me. I'm all' right and so la Alan! That's the main thing for you to understand; he'a still alive and sound" "But where Is be? Take me to him!" she demanded, rising with a movement of such grace and vigor that it seemed bard to believe she had ever known an Instant's wesrtnexs. "That's the rub." Ilarcus confessed,, squatting on the sands and knuckling his hair. "I daasent take you to him. Judith might object. Besides, you can, see for yourself It Isn't safe to mingle rus. Far from cringing, she seemed to find fresh heart In her sister's chal lenge. Her head was high, her glance level with Illimitable contempt aa she replied "So you've tried again?" she In quired obliquely, with a tone of pity. "You've offered him your love yet an other time, have you?" "Silence!" Judith cried In fury. "Only to learn once more that be would rather death than you?" Bosei persisted, unflinching. "And so you come to take your spite out on me. do you? You pitiful thing! Iki you think I mind knowing aa I do now that he could never hold you In any thing but compassion and contempt?" For an Instant there waa silence; by the scorn of her sister the heat of Judith's fury had been transformed with the inhabitants of this tight. Into a cold and mallKtinnt race. She controlled horsolf and her voice mar- l velounly. farther upon the shoals. Mr. Barcus and precipitating Alan She was, however, more than one I u . , . i couia manage; ana wuen ucr llttle Island and you can't get to 'where Alan la without min ting con siderably. Sit down, and I'll tell you all about It. and we'll try to figure out what's best to be done. Maybe we can manago a rescue under cover of night. You will see," ehe said in even and frigid accents. And the light of her nuutla leuped and Ion perl aK-iln In her eyes like a living fl.nno. "I have pre- i pared a wny to make you understand And when the girl had settled her- j what opposition to me means Delivered Into the Hands Enemy. of the the demon of perversity that tenants them one and all, he knew that the present sweet-tempered performance of the exhibit under consideration was no earnest whatsoever of future good behavior, that wben such a com plicated contraption was concerned there was never any telling . . . In view of all of which considera tions be presently threw open the bat tery switch. And the aching void created in the silence by the cessation of that uni form drone was startling enough to rouse even Rose Trine from her state of semi-somnolence. With a look of panic she sat up, thrust damp hair back from ber eyes, and nervously Inquired: "What's the matter?" "Nothing'," Barcus told bar. "I shut; the engine off that's all." Tempers were ehort in that hour, and Alan was annoyed to think that the rest of his beloved should need lessly have been disturbed. "What did you do that for?" he de manded sharply. "Because I Jolly well wanted to," Barcus returned in a tone aa brusque. "Oh, you did eh?" "Yes, I did eh! 1 happen to be bossing this end of the boat and to have sense enough to realize there's no sense at all in our wasting fuel the way we are cruising nowhere!" "Well," Law contended, struck by the fairness of this argument, but un able to calm his uneasiness "Just the same, we might " "Yes; of course, we might," Barcus napped. "We might a whole lot We might, for instance, be heading for Spain, for all you or I know to the contrary. And in such case, I for one respectfully prefer to have gas enough to take us home again If ever thia da blessed fog lifts!" I overboard. It was not given him to know what was happening until he found himself In the water; he struggled to the sur face Just in time to see the bows of the lifeboat back away and vanish Into the mist. CHAPTER XVI. The Island. Not more than twenty seconds could have elapsed before Barcus recovered . from the shock of the motor's trench I ery sufficiently to reverse the wheel, ' throttle down the carburetor and Jump out of the engine-pit But in that small space of time the lifeboat and Alan Law had parted com pany as definitely ae though one of them had been levitated bodily to the far side of the earth. It could not have been more than a minute after the accident before Barcus was guiding the boat over what going on his sense of location and Judgment of distance, be could have sworn was the precise spot where Alan had disappeared, but with out discovering a sign of him. And for the next twenty minutes he divided his attention between at tempts to eoothe and reassure the half-distracted girl and efforts to educe a reply from Alan by stentorian hailing with-aa little success In the one as in the other. "Alan!" he shrieked at the top of his lungs. "Alan! Give a hall to tell us you're safe!" There was a little pause; he was racking his brains for some more mov ing mode of appeal when the answer came in another rolce In the voice of Judith Trine, clear, musical, effer vescent with sardonic humor: "Be at peace, little one bleat no more! Mr. Law Is with us and safe oh, quite, quite safe!" In dumb consternation Barcua sought the countenance of Rose. Her eyes, meeting his, were blank with despair. He shook his head helplessly and let his hands dangle idly between his knees. With no way on ber, the lifeboat drifted with a current of unknown set and strength. "What can we do?" Rose implored. "We must do something. We can't leave blm . . . Oh, wben I think of him there, In ber bands, I could go mad!" "If only I knew," Barcus protested; "but my bands are) tied, my wits are as helpless as xo eyes are blind. stem had bitten a little more deeply into the sands, Barcus gave over the attempt and, lifting Rose down, set, ber on dry land, then climbed back into the vessel, rummaged out her anchor and cable, and carried them ashore, planting the former well up towards the foot of the cliff. And as he rose from this last labor he was half blinded by the glare of the westering sun as it broke through the fog. In less than five minutes the miracu lous commonplace was an acorn pllshed fact; the wind had rolled the fog back like a Bcroll and sent It spin self beside him he munched Into a. detailed report. "It's Katama Island, all right." he, announced, "but a change lias como over the place since I visited it some years ago. Then It was a community; of simple-hearted villagers and Usher 'men; now, unless all signs full, It's a, den ot smugglers. I noticed a nurrn ber of Chinese about; and that, takenj In connection with the fact that, when, I ventured to Introduce myself to tha village glnmlll and ask a few InnoJ cent questions, the entire population to a child, landed on me like a thou- sand brick the two circumstances made me think we'd stumbled on a settlement of earnest workers at the gentle art of helping poor Chinamen evade the exclusion laws." With a wry smUe, he pursued: "As for me, I landed out back of the Joint, ! on the nape of my nock-, and took the i count, surrounded by a lot of unsym- ; pathetic boxes and barrels that had , seen better days. And when I came to She waved a hand toward the nenrer point of rocks. "Take them along, she commanded. The understanding between her and her men was apparently complete; for these last without hesitation or fur ther Instructions, marched Hose and Ilnrcus down to the end of the spit and on, Into the wuter. It was nearly knee docp bofore Bar cus was halted with a savage Jerk, backed up to a rock, forced despite his frenzied resistance to sit down la tha water, and swiftly, with half a dozen nlng far out to sea, while the shore 1 and started to crawl unostentatiously on wnicn the two bad landed was deluged with sunlight, bright and beautifully warm. He showed a thoughtful and consid erate countenance to the girl. "You're about all In?" She nodded confirmation of this, which was no more than elmple truth. "Where are we?" she added. He made her party to his own per plexity. "You're not able to travel," he pur sued. "Do you mind being left alone while I take a turn up the beach and have a look round? We can't be far from some sort of civilization; even If It's an Island there are no desert Isles along this coast. I'll find some thing soon enough, no fear." By tacit consent both avoided men tion of Alan, but each knew what thought was uppermost in the other's mind. There's a niche among the rocks up here." Barcue Indicated, "almost a cave. You II be warm and dry enoueh. and secure from observation overhead. Maybe you can even snatch a few winks of sleep. . . ." She negatived that suggestion with a weary smile; no sleep for her until sheer exhaustion overpowered her, or she knew of Alan's fate. And so, reiterating his promise to be gone no longer than absolutely might be needful, be left her there. CHAPTER XVII. This Mortal Tide. She was very certain she would never sleep before her anxiety waa assuaged by word of Alan's fate; but she reckoned without her host ot trials that bad bred in her a fatigue anodynoui even to her mental an guish. For a time after Barcus bad left away, I was Just in time to witness the landing of your amiable slstor, that gang of cutthroats she keeps on the payroll, and Alan In company with as choice a crew of scoundrels bb you'd care to see. I gathered from a few words that leaked out of the back door of the barroom, that It was as I had thought Judith had stolen a boat from the ship that picked her up, and rammed It on Norton's reef; and after she gathered Alan in the schooner of these smugglers happened along, and she hailed It and struck a bargain with the captain and signed co-partnership articles, or something like that. Any way, her lot and the Islanders were soon as thick as thieves, and tanking up so sociably that I actually got a chance to whisper a word to Alan and tell him you were all right, and tbat he'd And us both down here on the beach, if luck served him with an es cape. That was all I got a chance to say, for Judith marched up Just then and yanked blm off to bis cell. I mean to say, he's locked up now in a little Stone hut on the edge of the cliff, with the door guarded and the window over looking a sheer drop of thirty feet on so to the beach. When I'd seen that much I calculated It was about time for me to get quit of that neighbor hood, before Mam'selle Judith nicked me with the evil eye." "You don't think she saw you?" the girl cried. "1 don't think so," Barcus allowed gravely; and then, lifting his gaze, be added as he rose In a bound: "I Just know she did that's all. In another instant he waa battling iJ':--r.fSft;---'' :-',..-v;:: .;fV-"':;';'''-'''-: if - 'jtr . 1 many baronet rharsea aKalmt thn o- leiny. which had a larse share In de li tiling tba laatw of tha battle Klsa Iwhera the Ct'rnialis. end' avoriii to rf iferi a Junction with ih. Austrian. isiiiikIiI to inert the Itux.lutl sltuck with a counter offensive, but iu r- vtiU-.J with liisars UNIMN. rt. pt. I - IVar la eMr. III Herlln. according to the corr jr.f ent of i ht Ktpraas at l ho Ilnciw. ttm Kussltns will nvi'iiKx lnnaln by sal ttK the tiirninn ailUl V' :! They Fought Llk Madman. could be so dry, so Already ths Waters Had Risen Over an Inch. deft hitches of rope and a stanch knot, made fast In that position sub merged to bis chest This accomplished, the men turned attention to Rose, lashing ber in simi lar wise at Barcus' side. Standing Just above the water-line, with every sign of complete calm and sanity other than that ominous flicker ing in her eyes, Judith superintended the business till Its conclusion, then waved the men away. Quietly, like well-trained servants, they turned their backs and marched off. And again, after a brief wait, th woman laughed her short and mirth less laugh. "The tide will he high," she said, "precisely at sunset. You may time your lives by that. When the sun dips Into the sea. then will your Uvea go mignt ana main with three willing ruf-, down with it" flans, who had come suddenly into. ' She turned on her heel and strode view round a shoulder of rock; but bla swiftly away, with not so much as av efforts were shortlived, foredoomed to backward glance, overtook her men,1 failure. He was weakened with suffer-, and passed quickly from sight around ing and fatigue and the three were the farther point of rocks, fresh and had th courage at leaat of ' For soma time Barcua struggled his throat parched . He opened his eye, shuddering. "It's good-by now," ho faltered. "Not yet!" her voire rang beside him. vibrant. "Look up there along the cliff!" He llftud his gate . . . Two men were running along tho cliff and the mini lit the leud wsa Alun. But bis lend una very scant. and the nuin who pumued wss one of Judith's, and stuck to thn trail like ft blood hound fresh from the loash. And now the water was at his lips; Ilarcus could no inoro speak without strangling. Of a sudden ho groaned In his heart; though there was no passable way down tho cliff, still the sIrIU of his friend alive and unhnrmed hnd brought with It a thrill of hope; now that hope died as ho saw Alun stumblo and go to his knees. Heforo ho could rise tho other was upon him, with the fury of a wolf sonk- Ing tho throat of a slug. For an Instnnt they fought like mad' men; then, In a trlco, the aky line of Uie cliff was empty; one or the other hnd tripped and fallen over the brink, and falling had retalnod hold of his enemy and cnrrlod him down as well. By no chance, Barcus told himself, could either escapo uninjured. Yut, to his amazement, be saw one man break from the other's embrace and rise. And ho who lay still, a crumpled, Inhuman heap upon the sands, was Judith's man. With a vlolont effort Barcus lifted his mouth above wuter and shrieked: "Alan! Alan! Help! Here at the end of the point In tho wator holp!" A proclous minute was lost bofore Alan discovered their two heads, so barely above that swiftly rising flood. Then he-ran toward thorn as he bad never run bofore, nnd as he came whipped out a Jack-knife and freed IU blade. Even so since It wns, of course, Rose whom Alun freed the first Barcus was half-drowned before Alan helped him In turn up to the beach. And as this hannenod the lost blood- red rim of the sun was washed under by the waves. Two minutes later the lifeboat was afloat and Mr. Barcus, already recov- ered, was laboring with the flywheel of the motor, stimulated to supreme exertion by the sight of a party, led by Judith, racing madly down the beach. But It was not until well out from shore and on tho way to the safoty promised by the mainland now read ily discernible on the horizon tbat any one of them found time for speech. Then Mr. Barcus straightened up from his assiduous attentions to tba motor, and observed: "You bear a charmed life, my ad venturous friend. I want to tell you. that wben I saw you go over that cliff I made up my mind your usefulness would be at least permanently Im paired. As It Is, I don't mind telling you that If ever I get out of this affair sllve, I'm going to have a try at your Ufa myself. Just once, for luck!" Nl:V YORK. Sept. I - Or K. T liiitnbs, the nttihnan.iiliir from Aii-tr Ilnnitary to I ho 1'nlt.M Htnt.n. w ho at pr nt Is at Miiniii. strr, N. II . r- reived loilny from the war olllca St Vii-nna a report of a victory of ih country aanluat Ituaala. The report was niacin public by Or. Charles Wil ier, win Austrian Hungarian conasl .geiirrul lu re, aa rili I "Moblllsnilon In Austria lltitifjrr I wns accomplished nine I siicrrsafully and with rronl rnlhunlusiii aitionit in ironia. aii race a ami an jurffrs n thn Mnxdotn milled lo ths colors In hUh spirit of pnlrloilain kvt will. Two nrmy corps, one ot ww thn famous Innsbrucka of the Tjtul, were sent through Munich by war of Ijiko ('otintunco to Alaucn to aid lbs forces operating ul Miilhuus-ii, In Al sace Uirrnlne." BEFORE RUSSIANS CZAR'S TROOPS POUR ACROSS FRONTIER INTO PRUSSIA TOWARD BRESLAU ROME, Sept. 2. News of the liM of th Twelfth Austrian army dlvisw by Russians at Lustchoff was recall her tonight It was said th AustrM losses wer terrific, Including sevsnl high officers. Ths Galsclan provincial authorltle) at Lemberg were said to be removing the records from ths city and prepaid Ing to surrender it to tha Russians. The czar's troops wer reported pouring across the Galaclan frontier Into Prussian Sllicla In the direction of Breslau, COI'KNIIAfilCN, Sept. 2. Fourteen IioiikiiiiiI six hundred was Klvon In illi- liutrhcs rvoolved hero toilny from litis- slon sources its tha number of Ai Irian ileml burled on (ho fluid as s re sult of tho righting wllh the KiikhIiwi In Cnllclu. It was said the AtiHtrlnns were pre paring to evnenute ImlxrK. In KiihhIiiii Poland I ho KiihhIiUib were roiiorlnd to huvo inflicted heavy re vorst's on I ho Austrian forces. The I'otnmrud (Kt. rotiTHburg) go" rnniont freolv nilmlllnri. however, the defeat thu KuhhIiiiis had siiHtulncd 1 inst Prussia, owning that It Involves wo corps, and that union k the killed we.ro (iunornls SiiiiihoiiIv, Mnrtoi no (HlJtcll. Tho czur's war office was (Wf. however, to the offnet that ttcnfT i wns a temporary ono, due to ' ooHHlty or (lls)OHin uoiimmij AustrliiiiH before proooeillnK advance Into Oormany, and that ' would soon bo resumca in Kruuuy - reused strengin. ABANDON BELFORT CAMPAIGN BASEU Switzerland, Sept. 2. (Vi Rome) The Germans hud completely abandoned today their movement against Holfort, Franco, ns a result of the Russian Invasion of east Prusfiia- A force of 150,000 Germans and A- trlnns engaged In tho operation against Holfort, which Is a fortress a hort distance on tho French side, oi the Alsaco frontier, were" withdrawn rrom that province and started north through Mctz to take the places of tn icrmanu. who. In turn, had abandons Ixjrrnlno for service against the H111' slims. . This left Alsnco opct to the Fronc. except for 140,000 reservists, against whom It was expected the nco would move shortly. REO CR083 NURSES KILLtu i t nunnu Hr.t 5 That 12 women Red Cross nurses hnd been kjl'j the Franco-Anglo-Oernian j k "T front was stated in a Paris d spate" received by the London Chronicle i Ight. Others, it was staiea, " - wounded.