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J - THE SUNDAY OEEGONTAN, POKTLAXD, lAHCn 4, 1917. j . .. ... . This Is the rreat romance of preparedness. In which the role of Patrta Channlng is played by Mrs. Vernon Castlo. supported by Milton Sills as Donald Parr, Warner Oland as Baron Hurokl, Dorothy Green as Fanny Adair, and a cast of exceptional merit. Read this story now, then see it all In motion pictures. Produced by the International Film Serv ice, Inc., under the direction of "Wharton, Inc. Copyright Star Company, 1916. All .foreign, rights reserved. rsTKODtrcnox. Patfla. last of "The Flcritlng; Charminss." n route to Newport, her Summer home. 1 thrown to drown from a Sound steamer bv acents of Baron Hurokl. chief of the Japanese Secret Service, who, conspiring to embroil the United State and Mexico, de sires control of the extensive Channlngs munition plants, owned by Patria. Her physical counterpart, Elaine, a notorious fiancer in liuroki's pay, substitutes for Pa tria. EPISODE KrVEl ? THE ISLASTO THAT WAS, Umbo I N the breathless hush of that bright midsummer dawn the Island rested amid still waters like a great yel low topaz on a field of glowing eap . . phlre. No land was visible in any Quarter. Tet the mainland was not remote. Barely an island. little more than an - overgrown nandbar, a desolate patch of . ; salt-bitten earth producing no vegeta- '. ' .: tlon more valuable than coarse beach . grass. It was charted and known to "long-shore seafarers as Limbo Island. ' But few, if any of these had ever taken . occasion to visit it; they knew it by tradition for what it was. so passed it ' by. Only of late years had it grown .'accustomed to shelter mankind, a lit- tie colony of Japanese fishermen hav ' " lng chosen It for their base. But all - their huts were clustered sociably In ' a hollow of the dunes and worked no , change in the profile of the island. - '. The dingy sails of their fishing boats drifted inconspicuously over the shoals that compassed Limbo. Their scanty " : catches found a market In either New . port or New Bedford. The native fitsh- .- trmen of the mainland suffered their ' competition tolerably; among such they were commonly termed "them foolish Japs." Coastwise shipping ig . nored the island altogether. The lum- Ix r schooners and the coal barges plodding sullenly in tow of sturdy tugs kept to the channel that hugged the '.j. land far in the North; while the few . vessel that sought to enter Narragan- sett Bay from the Atlantic made a . ' wide detour to the westward to avoid Limbo Shoals. So the Japanese were left to their own devices; with which . .' circumstance they seemed eminently - content. ' As the sun rose, so did these simple . folk; by two's and three's they emerged from their rude dwellings and ... vent about their business. Some em- barked in battered craft to draw the lifts and cast the seines with which . tliey wrested from the sea an appar- ' cntly precarious livelihood. Others ! swarmed upon a little sloop that had . come in overnight to a crude dock that - jutted out into the least exposed har , " hor of the island, and began indus- '. triously to empty its hold of a cargo of many heavy packing cases. These ''.worked under the supervision of one V-: who wore the habit of authority to gether "with the wreck of what had once been a khaki uniform. A soli . .', tary Inhabitant of the island seemed to have no set task; and this one was , not a Japanese. The sun was high before he dlscov " ; ered himself to its rays, lounging sul ' .' lenly out of a dwelling slightly more pretentious than its neighbors; a -. youngish man, well-made, with a dark, keen countenance, of Latin cast; his ' . clothing of the simplest, a tattered . . shirt, trousers worn and patched, an -. .. Id belt with a rusty buckle nothing : more, not even shoes. The gaze with which he reviewed . ' the too familiar aspect of sea and sky . - was eloquent of embittered ennui. His ;". mouth twitched; his eyes flared wildly; . he damned the day with a gesture of passionate discontent: shrugged. Jerked & coarse bag of tobacco and a packet of brown papers from a hip pocket, -.' deftly with one hand fashioned a cl garette, lighted it Inhaled exhaustive ly, and slouched off, his bare feet fol lowing indifferently a beaten pathway i ; out of the dunes. -. Near the dock he paused a little, (-. lack lustre gaze regarding the ac- ..' tivities of his Japanese associates . aboard the sloop. Then turning his . -v., pack to these he drifted from their w . en along the wave-packed sands. A J. ' -. few hundred yards farther on. and he Dual J, wiiii k iow-pitcsea ' CTV Of amaze. A p.nrr tt ttiA Icl.n i ' had brought him within view of the - '"- . body of a woman that lay huddled on - i " : tno beach, half In, half out of the ..'.; water. For some seconds he stood '"" rooted In stupefaction, then ran awlft- -i ' y aor B1Q ana cropped on his The woman's face was hidden, but ..V- before he turned It to the light he .. knew n v tV pnM .m, ... v-.. shoulders that she lived. A canvas covered life-ring lay nearby, stenciled .'with the name of a Fall River Lino . KtAamchfn Rjaat . I . i 1 i . wviufi .uiioi iiie wan uesi-i . .,t8-ted a moment, rapidly reconstructing! I the outline of what might have been a 'V ' ; tragedy; this woman had either fallen - . ..or been thrown from the boat, had " j drifted in the buoy for many hours ere '' ,x 'the coastwise currents had washed her '. "P on Limbo Shoals, had come to her- ' ,?;;elf long enough to stagger to the . . jPhore and discard the life-ring before ' .,, falling in a faint of fatigue. i No wonder: she was very young and - ' j slightly made hardly a woman, a mere slip of a girl and by the delicate i, y tenderly, accustomed to jealously shel- ' itered ways of life. Such exposure as ."'she had endured might well have , . - ijruvcu ner oeau; yet sua naa survived' "'Jit strangely; some secret spring of - -.rarely stubborn vitality sustaining her : ' throughout an experience that might "- have wrecked beyond repair a stronger, . . ;'i coarser creature. ' -; Staring down into that exauislte - -i v..;, a itok di mingiea. covetousness . ana craft kinaled in the even of th -(man. Rising abruptly, he raked his surroundings with furtive and suspi- ' .' oiou glances. At length satisfied that . none watched him, he stooped, gath- - 1 erad that frail young form in his nrms. . I ana aartea swirtly away, not as he had v "come, but inland through the dunes. " Two short' minutes sufficed for his , Journey; he came into the hollow of i the huts stealthily, pausing to make . ' .""' uiuciiauLou ueiore Hurrying .. into his dwelling. B-ot the luck was ; not with him; with his knowledge . he was observed; the door had not . ' , -t closed upon him and his salvage when . . '. a little Japanese slipped quietly from . , an adjoining hut and trotted briskly ; toward the harbor. . . .... The girl opened dazed, uncompre- bending eyes upon a scene so strange . to them that, for a moment, she was half inclined to believe that she had ; died of drowning and passed in spirit to some weird half-world. She lay on . : a rough canvas cot in a room whose j darkness was barely tempered by light : from a window half obscured by a , ! solid shutter of wood- Over her a ; strange, dark, semi-savage face was ' bent a mask that might well have 1 been a demon's its lips framing words in an outlandish tongue. Her brows and Hps were moist with something which the owner of the face was rub bing on them something which he eased into the cup of his palm, from a bottle. A reek of brandy -urned In her mouth and throat. She coughed a little. ... As if that sound had been a signal a aoor was thrown roughly open, let ting in a flood of sunlight. Through It entered a Japanese in ragged uni form. In two trldes he gained the middle of the room. The other turned sharply to meet him. There was brief pause. Even in her confusion ana pnysicai distress the girl was sensitive to an atmosphere surcharged with hostility. The voice of the Japan ese broke the tension edged with re monstrance. "Senor Jaurez! I am informed The other interrupted brusquely: "That I have found a hatlf-drowned woman Americano on the beach and brought her here. It's true." "You should not have done thisP "It seems I did!" With a sudden movement the Japa nese produced a pistol. "I regret the necessity," he said; "but Baron Hu roki's orders are to kill immediately any stranger who sets foot upon the island: "Wait!" The fingers of Senor Juarez closed quickly on the wrist of the Japanese and turned his pistol to the celling. Simultaneously the Mexican lifted, with his other hand, a small can of bright tin that had stood upon a nearby table. "One moment. Captain Hakusekl! This can contains nitro glycerine. In the storeroom back there" a Jerk of Juarez head Indi cated a door in the back of the build ing "over one hundred tons of high explosive are stored. The woman is mine!" "Karon Huroki " "To hell with Baron Hurokl! I deal with you not him and I warn you, I shall keep the woman or blow this island off the map!" The Japanese hesitated an instant. conceded defeat with a shrug. "Have your way," be said mildly and turned to go. But the grasp on his wrist was nn- relaxed. "Walt another moment. Cap tain Hakusekl. I want that pistoL" It was surrendered without a sus picion of contest. '.Now go and dont bother n again. Captain Hakusekl executed a right about-face and marched out of the hut. Senor Jaurez secured the door behind him, then turned to see the girl strug- 1 Bllng to a sittin.g position on the cot. lie hastened to assist her. "You are weak, senorlta you must not exert yourself. Permit me . . ." He wound his arm around her waist. tenderly assisting her to a chair by the table. And as she sank into this he bent over and brought his lips close to her. She shrank away with a little cry. "Ah. no! Be not afraid of me. senorlta! Remember I saved your life. . . What Is a kiss in payment for that? The pistol he had taken from the Japanese rested on the table. Chance guided the fingers of the girl to its grip, inspiration of despair prompted her to lift the muzzle to the tin of nitroglycerine. .Keep away from me." she ordered in accents whose feebleness could not disguise a spirit of inflexible determin ation. "Keep-away or I pull the trig ger! - With a terrified ejaculation the Mex ican sprang back to a profoundly re spectful distance. "Senorlta I beg of yoti !" "Leave this house or I pull the trig ger!" Juarez threw himself madly at the door, wrenched it open, started out and shrank back from a knife-bayonet on a rifle presented by a stocky deadly-looking little Japanese. "Captain Hakuseki's orders: Tou re main a prisoner till you give up the woman !" Between the devil and the deep seat the Mexican threw himself on the mercy of the girl. "Senorlta in the name of pity " 6he nodded curtly. "Come In shut that door lock it. . . ' . Now tell me where I am!" "Senorlta, you have been washed ashore on Llmho Island." "Where is that?" "Southeast of Newport about SO miles." "And why are uch great quantities of high explosive stored on Limbo Island?" "Senorits I conceal nothing from you I am your slave " "Answer my question!" The muzzle of the pistol remained In close Juxtaposition to the tin of nitroglycerine The Mexican shivered with terror. "Because." he- stammered "because Japan used this ksland as a secret depot for munitions "To be used In the event of war with the United States?" "61, senorlta yes." "I understand. . . Now fetcn me food . Changeling. About mid-morning, a young man be comingly attired in riding clothes sur rendered his horse to the care of a groom and ascended the steps to the veranda of the Channlng Cottage on the Cliff Walk. In the doorway a footman waited to' greet him with the manner of one wel coming an intimate of the household. "Good morning. Captain Parr. It's a pleasure to see you agajn, sir." "Thank you. Gregory. ts Mrs. Wrenn at home?" "I believe so, sir." "And Miss Channlng?" "Miss Patria arrived by boat early this morning, sir." "Please say to her, I am waiting for the ride she promised me...." "Yes, sir." "And tell Mrs. Wrenn I would be glad to pay my respects, if she Is visible at such an early hour." "Very good, sir." The footman stepped back Into the house and disappeared. Captain Parr remained on the veranda, seeming idly to admire the view, in reality oblivious of It, preoccupied with private consid erations of not unpleasant complexion. As a matter of fact, he rather fancied himself Just then! He had done some thing tolerably spectacular: he could imagine Patria's astonishment when she learned he was punctual to their appointment, who had been left behind In New York the night before: and he was mentally relishing the wondering admiration with which she ought by rights to receive his account of how he had journeyed to Newport so ex peditiously. Sounds of stifled lamentation dis turbed his mood. He frowned, cocked an attentive ear, located the noise as emanating from the hallway of. the cot tage, and went indoors to see what the trouble was. He discovered a pleasant-faeed lady's-maid of mature years, forehead bowed against the newel-post at th5 foot of the staircase, weeping loudly and copiously. "Why, Anne! What's the matter?" The woman showed a blowsy, tear stained, writhen countenance. "Oh, Captain Parr, my heart's bro ken! I don't know what to do at all. It's discharged I am, sir!", "What!" Parr could hardly believe his ears. "Miss Patria is after discharging me without notice, sir and all these years I've served her and never a cross word. . . . !" "But why? What did yon. do?" "11 my. clumsiness, sir. I happenad - ' wMW.iJMl,i, t ii m ..ithm wmwrnrntmu. u.tuu,nW..u...uIMM- 'fV -) - j In' , ,1 ' -ii r ii. hs J. i y t ' - , .vjWi'lJ JParrlt Ifarzdj to drop her hand mirror, and It broke, it did. And then it was like herself went mad. She flew into a raara. sir. and stamped her foot at me. and called me a clumsy fool, and eald it meant seven years' bad luck, and wouldn't listen to me at all at all, and told me to pack my trunk and go, that myself was fired, and " "Did she say 'fired,' Anne?" "She did that. Captain Pan- "It doesn't sound like Patria!" "It doesn't, sir. For the matter of that she ain't seemed herself since that dreadful affair on the. boat last night." "wnat dreadful arfalr7" "You haven't heard about It. sir? A poor Invalid lady in the stateroom next Miss Patria's went out of her head and Jumped overboard and was drowned, sir. The nurse with her made terrible fuss said the invalid lady had been threatening to commit sui cide, and she'd only Just closed her eyes for a wink when the lady slipped out of the stateroom and did it, eir. It was awful, it was so. and Miss Patria hysterical about it, what with their Etaterooms being so close together and the excitement, and all! "Still I don't see." Captain Parr interrupted himself and Anne hastily disappeared as Mrs. Gil bert Wrenn, Patria's chaperon, entered from the breakfast room, with her son Rodney. At sight of Parr they broke into those wondering exclamations he had anticipated. "Why Donald!" "Don! For the love of Mike! How did you get here? Patria said " "I flew," Captain Parr explained mod estly. "I should say you aid fly! What did you do? Hire a special train?" "I flew," Parr Iterated. "I planed from Governor's Island this morning." "Donald! Not really?" ' "Really, Mrs. Wrenn." "It's just what Don would do, mother. He makes me tired never misses a chance to show off in some such gaudy way!" "Oh, come now, Rodney'' "Beg pardon. Captain Parr . . . " Donald looked round to find the foot man waiting for his attention. "Yes, Gregory?" The man hesitated with what seemed FOR THE YOUNG March 6, Thirty Years Ago rr iHIRTY years ago your mothers I who were then little folks like - you, doubtless passed a very sad day on March 6, for on that day in 18 88 their friend and author, Louise M. Al cott. died. Every little person In those times read the charming stories she wrote about boys and girls; In fact, there are very few children who do not feast on them now. She was essential ly a friend of young folks, and personal acquaintance inspired as great a love for her as did the reading of her books. One of her favorite subjects was the klndheartedness and benevolence of her parents, whom she adored. Here is an anecdote she told of them that hap pened when she was as young as you: "One Saturday night when the weather was cold and snowy and our woodbox none too full, a little girl neighbor came to ask the loan of some wood, as their baby was sick, her father away and their house very cold. Tou see,' she said, 'mother has to tide over Sunday.' " , Mother and father looked at each other for a moment and then father said: "Give half our stock and trust to Providence to moderate the weather. If he doesn't see fit, then wood may come." Mother laughed her cheery laugh and said: "Well, their need is greater than ours, and if our half gives out, we can go to our beds and tell one another stories to forget the cold." The little neighbor ran home with her box full of wood and we gathered around our fire to keep warm as. long as it would last, when a knock at the door startled us. Mother opened the door and found the farmer who usually supplied us standing outside. He ex plained his late visit in this way: "I started for Boston with this load of wood, but it drifts so that I think it best to get back home. Would you like me to drop the wood here? It would be an accommodation to me and you needn't be in a hurry to pay me ror . Agaln father and mother looked at Remained Casj223eJzrilfs 23ac7c. singular reluctance to deliver his mes sage. "Beg pardon, sir ... Tm sorry . . . Miss Channlng directs me to say she is not at home to Captain Parr!" Had the servant deliberately slapped his face, Donald could have been no more thunderstruck. He stared incred ulously, for the moment unable Ao grasp the meaning of the words. Mrs. Wrenn betrayed no less per plexity. "Gregory! what did you say?" "Miss Patria Instructed me to say, Mrs. Wrenn, she Is not at home to Cap tain Parr." "But there must be some mistake you must have misunderstood her, Gregory!" "I thought so myself, ma'm. If I may say so. and took the liberty of asking Miss Patria to repeat her message. She did sf, using these identical words, ma'm." Parr found his tongue. "Thank you, Gregory. That's all." The footman withdrew, murmuring sympathetically. "But Donald," Mrs. Wrenn insisted, "I'm sure he must have misunderstood. I'll run up at once and see Patria my self." "Please, no, Mrs. Wrenn. Gregory's an Intelligent fellow. Patria Is doubt less out of temper with me for falling to catch the boat yesterday. It wasn't my fault, but I understand she had an unpleasant experience last night and she's probably upset. I'll go now really, I must and perhaps she will change hen mind about me before we meet again." i - In point of fact. Parr hardly knew what he was saying or what he heard. Overruling the objections of Rodney and ,hls mother, h,e strode from the house, threw h.imself on the back of his horse, and rode away in a state of daze, one moment tormented with burning humiliation, the next blazing with re sentment, and all the while bewildered beyond coherent thought. - That Patria. sweetest and tenderest of women, should treat him so. without shadow of provocation, passed his com prehension. Why, It was out of reason Their un Lenlse M. Alcott. each other and, as father nodded "yes' to the farmer, he turned to us children and said: "Didn't I tell you wood would come ir the weather did not moder ate?" -i y mothers favorite motto was Cast thy bread upon the -water and atter many days It will come back but tered. Another of her sayings was 'Hope and keep busy." Something About Deer. 8 every year horses shed their old L coats for new ones, so the deer In our forests or parks drop their horns. Then In about 13 weeks a new pair of horns arrives, but they are ten der and easily hurt. i A deer's new horns irn ralleri "vl vet," because they grow Inside of a fir wmmm MY PEMMY Dear Uncle grve me ft nice mew penny. IT LOOrtt LIKE GOLD-SO BRIGHT AMD NEW, A NO A UNTIE SAID UHY OONT YOU SAVE 17? "you will be rich soon if you do-v blt here it 15 a whole day finished, That pemmy hawt crowed abit! Tomorrow guess III take it skoppimg Ano buyacamoy stick with it ! derstanding was so complete, their en gagement only awaiting Patria's per mission to be publicly announced. And "Miss Channing directs me to say that she is not at home to Captain Parr." . . . It needed a long, hard ride to weary Parr's emotions to semi-numbness. He brought back a horse sadly fagged and lathered. There was no note of explanation or apology awaiting him at his lodgings. Nobody had called him on the telephone. Gradually conviction forced itself home that. Impossible as it might seem, Patria had really meant It. Whatever his offense, she had used it as an ex cuse to Jilt him in the most heartless fashion. Now Donald Parr was never one to wear his heart on his sleeve. Whatever his sufferings, the world should never suspect them if ha could help it. To ward mid-afternoon, he changed to white flannels, stiffened his upper lip. and sought the Casino, outwardly a man with mind serene and carefree temper. Finding nobody of his circle of ac qaintances at the Casino the hour was late for lunch, early for afternoon tea he fortified himself with a cocktail and sought surcease of brooding in that morning's Boston Examiner. It seemed at first a needlessly cruel freak of chance that the very first news item to meet his eye should be so strong a re minder of his unhappiness. "Fall River, June 27. While the Fall River Line steamship Commonwealth was off Point Judith last night, Mrs. John Ferdinand of Chicago, an Invalid suffering from melancholia, eluded her nurse and committed suicide by Jump ing overboard. "Chicago, June 27. The City Direc tory does not contain the name of Mrs. John Ferdinand." Slowly Donald lowered the news paper, a thoughtful furrow creasing his brows. Anne's words of that morn ing came back to him like an echo pregnant with significance: "Miss Patria ain't seemed like her self since that dreadful affair on the boat last night!" What if . . . Horror gripped Don aid s heart like an icy hand. . . . What PEOPLE tough skin which Is coarse and brown like plush. For a long time he will not thrash his horns in the brush. It would oe too painful. When a -deer is without horns he feels weak. When the new horns start and grow hef begins to feel strong again. Arter wniie he tosses his head from side to side every day, and then he runs rapidly through the brush and unaergrowtn. As his new horns become big, they also become less easily hurt. In run ning through the brush, the outer skin or velvet" is broken and neeled wov In,the Spring time the "velvet" drops off. The deer is then very proud of his new clothes. If a deer Is not afraid of pain, he n y uul iiis new noma long before his mates do. He will not wait until the "velvet" is gone. Wherever thi. outer skin is broken too soon the horn grows longer and larger. Thus .It Is that the bravest deer has the biggest ya.tr ui norns. uogs can easily follow a deer by means of scent. In each Yinnf is a pasty mass which leaves a slight v" "") ground, jf-or this reason hunters usually take dogs with them. But a wise deer can sret will dash into a stream, run In it. wash the odor from his feet and then circle back to his home. This act causes the ui lose me aeer s trail. TOJTGVE3 TWIST EH. Say Quickly.) If you stick a stick across a stick. Or cross a stick across a stick. Or stick a cross across a stick. Or stick a cross across a cross. Or eross a cross across a stick. Or cross a cross across a im Or stick a crossed stick across a stick. or cross crossed! stick across cross. Or stick a crossed stick across a crossed stick. Or cross a stick. Or cross a crossed stick. crossed stick across orossed stick across How will you stick a cross across crossed stick? A sleeper is one who sleens. A sleep is that In which a sleeper sleeps. A sleeper is that on which a sleeper ",,a ui mo eieeper Sleeps. Therefore while the sleeper sleeps In the sleeper the sleeper carries him the sleeper over the sleeper under the sleeper under the sleeper which car ries the sleeper Jumps the sleeper and wakes the sleeper in tha sleeper by striking the sleeper under the sleeper on the sleeper and" there Is !o longer any . sleeper In the sleeper on the Undoing of a Thief. London Tit-Bits. Scottish farmer was selling wool one day to a carrier, and after welching It no went into tne house to make out an Invoice. When he came back he missed a cheese that had been standing on a shelf behind the outer door. Glancing at the bag of wool, he observed that It had suddenly Increased in size. man. ne said to the carrier, "I has ciean rorgoi tne weight o' that bag. Let's pit it on the scales once malr " The carrier could not well refuse. The bag was. of course, found to be heavier by the weight of the cheese inside. A new Invoice was made out and the crest fallen carrier went away. The farmer's wife at once missed the cheese, and. rushing to the vard told her husband that some thief' had stolen It. "Na, na. Meg," replied the farmer, quietly. "I hae Just selt the cheese for two fehlUia'a th.ft.pun.d.' If the Patria of last night were not the Patria of today? That a woman existed so like Patria in face and form that none could dis tinguish one from the other was a fact too well known to Captain Parr. What if his detenUon in New York the previous evening, on that trumped up charge of assault and battery, had been merely a ruse to prevent his reaching the boat and possibly hinder ing a plot to eliminate Patria Chan nlng by drowning and substitute for her this dancing woman who so closely resembled her and who might well be in the pay of Huroki? In such a case the Impostor's first move would be to dismiss her body servant and deny herself to all who had intimately known the real Patrla. Pondering deeply Donald rose to leave the Casino and on the way out came unexpectedly upon a group of four, seated over cocktails round a little table. He tried to ignore them, but this was not permitted. A voice that, if not the voice of Patria Chan nlng, was at least a very creditable Imitation of It. hailed him. "Don Donald Parr! ' Do come here!" With the speaker at her table were Fanny Adair, Baron Hurokl and Juan de Lima. Suspicion rife in his mind. Parr bowed over the band offered him by the woman who might or might not be Patria Channlng. To each of the others In turn he nodded gravely. "Awfully Jolly to meet you here, Don. I do so want you to be the first to know; I have promised to marry Senor de Lima." To the Mexican, alert to rise with a brilliant smirk of self satisfaction and a proffered hand. Donald bowed pro foundly. His own hands remained clasped behind his back. "I am happy to be able to congrat ulate Senor de Lima," he said quietly; and turning, left the Casino. One more move that would be only natural in an Impostor) What, when first It had presented Itself- to his Intelligence, 10 minutes ago, had seemed the wildest of Im probable suspicions. In his understand ing now assumed the substance of es tablished fact. He was firmly per suaded that the girl to whom he had Just been talking was not the true Patria Channlng. But how to prove that? How to avenge that crime which had made possible the substitution of this im postor? Parr set his wits to cope with that problem. Pending their solution, he applied himself to the task of keeping Baron Hurokl under close but unosten tatious surveillance. Throughout the remainder of the day that - Japanese made no move unknown to Donald Parr. Late in tha afternoon Hurokl was surreptitiously waylaid by a low-caste Japanese from whom he received a message which seemed to cause the Baron considerable pertrubation. The messenger was duly identified as one of the colony of fishermen on Limbo; he returned to a little sloop, which had Just come in from the island and made fast to a dock on the business water front of the community. Baron Hurokl himself returned to, his hotel, and re mained there, closeted with Juan de Lima, till nightfall. Under cover of darkness he sallied forth. closely dogged by Donald Parr, made a circuit ous way to the waterfront, and board ed the sloop, which Immediately cast off and set sail -for the harbor mouth. Now what pressing business dragged Hurokl away to Limbo Island by night? . Parr made It his own business to find out. If there were something on Lim bo that Interested Baron Huroki so profoundly. It was sure to prove no whit less interesting to the United States Secret Service. Within 15 minutes of the time when the sloop had sailed, Donald launched his seaplane and rose to an altitude whence he could espy the Island, a formless blur of darkness on the face of waters silvered by moonlight. Toward It the aircraft sped in flight as true well-nigh as swift as that of an arrow. The Human Bomb. Half buried In the side of the largest dune on Limbo Island, the dwelling which Senor Juarez had shared with his Japanese associate. Captain Hakusekl, was a shack of a single room, with one window and two doors. Of these last one, like the window, opened upon the hollow In which the other huts of the station were gathered together: the remaining door led by way of a short timbered tunnel, to a huge vault hol lowed out In the heart of the dune, wherein a very considerable store of arms, ammunition, mines and nign expio slves was sheltered. On the farther side of the dune here a concave bluff, wave-eaten the vault had two great doors behind which a biplane stood lightly poised, ready for instant use in emergency; the doors once open it would require very little time to wheel the biDlane out upon a wide ana almost level stretch of hard-packed beach and start the engine. Bv this means alone Patria Chan ning hoped, with the aid of the Mexi can, to contrive an escape irom tne rer uge which had proved so quickly the cell of two condemned prisoners. For the shack was In a state of siege. Since the dispute between Juarez and Hakusekl the hollow had Deen picketed with armed Japanese. As yet these had made no offensive move; but the under standing was implicit, that neither pris oner might set foot outside the shack save at penalty of death. Patria, con demned by Baron Hurokl's ukase that no stranger might visit the island and live to tell of It, Juarez' death sentence signed by his own act of mutiny. Thus the Interests of the two were one. n bonds of common perlL So long as this was so. Patria believed she might trust Juarez to do his utmost to further their escape. He boasted knowledge of aviation; she had some; she was obliged to trust In him, the air lanes being the sole feasible way of flight. Juarez had schemed a scheme to hood wink the enemy which Patria had In dorsed. She waited now. alone in the shack, for the Mexican's return from making all things ready at the far side of the vault. There was" no light other than a feeble glimmer of moonshine filtering In through cracks around window and door. The crirl sat In a corner, the tin of nitroglycerine on the table before her, automatic pistol In hand, her pose one of tense vigilance, her glances shifting rapidly from outer door to window, to the tunnel-mouth exposed bv its oDen door. She heard never a sound other than the remote rumble of the sea. a sibilant lisping of wavelets mumbling the beaches. Noiselessly in nis oare reet Juarez returned, preceded by the flicker of an electric torch, bringing with him a modern magazine rifle newly filched from the stores in the vault. Are you ready? be wnisperea. Follow the aisle between the pack ing cases," he Instructed with a gesture toward the . tunnel. "It leads to the hangar doors. If the guards on the beach run off to see what s the matter when I begin shooting, unbar the doors but don't open them till I Join you." She nodded again, and entered the tunnel as Juarez tiptoed to the window and stealthily unbarred It. Picking her way cautiously, she ar rived beneath the wings of the biplane before the silence of the island night was shattered by a rippling fusillade. An eye to the err It between the great doors, she saw two armed Japa nese who had been patrolling the beach. jLurn and, after momentary, heul- ( tation. run off in the direction of ths disturbance. Working swiftly, she had lifted down the last heavy bar of wood that held the doors together before Juarez ap peared at her side. "Good!" he breathed, eye to the crack. I got one of them. The others are preparing to rush the shack. We've got perhaps two minutes. . . . Putting his shoulder against one of the doors, he swung it widely out. Patria had the other open almost as quickly. She stepped into open night with a little shivr. of excitement and fright, and waited to one side while Juarez wheeled the biplane out as easily as though it had been a perambulator. He turned and beckonec. A vicious tongue of flame licked out of beach, grass that crowned a nearby dune. Simultaneously a rifle spoke. Juarez threw his hands high, jpun in hia tracks, and dropped. There came a second shot. A llttla spurt of sand flew up at Patria's feet. ft! t,eSB in .her terro-. be dropped .,.Vn of n,trSlycerine and Jed swiftly up the beach, without thought or aim other than to find shelter from those bullets which persistently hounded her footsteps, singing past her or sullenly burying themselves la the sands. Of a sudden she saw Hakusekl run- f to,. moet her' the brilliant moon ngnt glinted on a weapon in his hand. jY, 5. a BOb of despair. Patria turned blindly at right angles and ran with out really appreciating whither ubm ran out upon the harbor dock. Behind her the automatic of tb Japanese rattled shrewlshly and was ' unexpectedly answered from offshore. At the end of the dock, the girl paused and glanced back. Hakusekl had given up the pursuit was, indeed running swiftly for shelter in tha dunes; but the rifles of his followers were speaking animatedly. A great flood of hope surged in hep bosom as she looked offshore and dis covered an aeroplane settling down like an Immense waterfowl settling upon the surface of the harbor, not 20 yards distant. If doubt existed in her mind as to the identity of its pilot, were he friend or enemy. It was soon erased by his hail. "Patria! Quick swim off to mel"" The pllof s pistol rattled again. Donald's voice! Patria was no more afraid; and water was as her natlva element Without hesitation she dived, and struck off toward the plane. Little more than a minute later Parr was nelplng her to climb up on one of the pontoons, then to a seat beside his own, while bullets continued to sing rlcochetted over the waters and tore through the covering of the planes. She was no more than settled In her place when Parr began to manipulate the controls and the seaplane sklmmud the surface of the harbor in a long, graceful curve, then began to rise. . . Back on the island, standing beside the biplane. Captain Hakusekl wit nessed the successful evasion in a rage that ruffled even his racial placidity. In his understanding the affair was intolerable; though he perished en deavoring to prevent it, this escape must not be permitted. Summoning assistants, he turned toward the biplane and paused as his foot struck what one swift down glance identified as the tin of nitro glycerine. Inspired by this accident, he picked up the tin, crammed it into a side pocket of his khaki coat, and clambered to the pilot's seat. Provided he might maneuver his air-craft above the other, he would need only to drop the deadly bomb; and there would be nothing left of the fugitives. HI3 aides started the motor. With, a roar the propellers began to revolve. Hakusekl grasped the controls. The machine shot off down the beach and took the air at the water's edge. The seaplane, seeking a high level, was rising In a wide spiral. As yet it was not high, and the Japanese plane was the better at climbing. Within a space of time Incredibly brief the two were hovering on an approximate level, high above the island. One shot might serve his end. Tha temptation was too strong to be re sisted. Hakusekl drew his pistol and opened fire. In Parr's machine Patria Channlng took the weapon proffered by her res cuer and. leaving htm free to attend to his duties as pilot, threw herself back at length upon the plane and re turned the fire of. the Japanese. Hakusekl was conscious of something like the Impact of a fist between his eyes. Blindness followed, with agon izing pain. He crumpled In his seat, lurching forward against the controls. His last conscious thought was one of terror; the biplane was falling; tha tin of explosive remained In his pocket; when he came to earth he would be utterly annihilated. Unconsciousness mercifully ensued. Nose down, the biplane dived like a plummet; but the body of Hakusekl, thrown from its place, distanced the machine. The summit of the . great dune that housed the store of expio sives received the full Impact of its fall. An Instantaneous explosion sig naled the extermination of Hakusekl. Barely a breath later the dune opened' up like the crater of a volcano, belch ing smoke and flame to the skies. De tonation followed detonation moro swiftly than reeling senses could reckon. The little Island, rocked, dis integrating. The sea, rose, shouting and whelmed It. Clouds of steam ob scured the debacle. . . 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