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HThe Ahited Qepulchre JL The V V Tale of O Pelee By Will Levington Comfort Copyriffht, 1936, br Will Lovlnrton Comfort CopyrUht. 1W7. br J. B, LirriNcorr Comiaiv. All rlaht rrscrrcd CHAPTER XV. (Continued.) Cnptnln Negley hnd just stopped Into Hie chart room. Laird was on the bridge. Plans, the second officer, on Ills way to uio bridge to relieve or assist Lnlrd, was felled nt tho door of the chnrt room In the Instant required to drag tho body to shelter and close the door of tho chart room, Captain Negley was overpowered by the blizzard of steam, gas and livid stone. When consciousness returned to him ho was lylnc across the body of Plass, and the ship was rolling like a runaway buoy. The skipper regained his feet. In spite of terrible bums, he felt little pain. His limbs, below tho knees, were like wood His left hand was yellow and Inflated Fire brands still screamed into the sea outside, but the day was returning. The indomitable Xegley was first to reach the deck, the woodwork of which was burn ing in several places. He tried to shout, but his throat was closed by the -hot dust. The body of a man was hanging over tho railing of the bridge. It was Laird, with his face burned away. The shock of his burns was beginning to overpower the captain when Pugh, the tliiru officer, untouched by fire, appeared from below. In a horrid tonguelcss way, Xegley fired the other to act, and stag gered into the cabin passageway. Pugh shrieked up the hands aud set to the fires and the ship's course. Out of the five sailors and three officers on deck when Pelee struck, Xegley alone had retained lie thinking faculty. Miss Stansbury was hurled from her chair. Appalled by the dread fact of dis solution, she lay in the primal darkness in he midst of falling glass. Macready was groping, calling for her. That she was unhurt seemed such a great matter to him and entirely Insignificant to herself. Her lover had fallen. Their starry pa vilion of the future was in blackness and ruin. It would have been better had Pelee found them together. Macready lifted her to a chair. The ports were gray instead of black, but splosbed with the big seas. "Your friend is dead, Denny," she said harshly. "What's this you're talkin'? 'Tis no bit av a geyser in a dirt pile as can tell him how t' come on' go." The screaming of the natlvo women reached them from the hold. Macready opened the door, and a blast of terrible heat entered the cabin. The woman was clutching the arms of the chair and star ing at him with the most pitiful eyes ever seen in child or woman. The swaying form of Xegley was in the passageway, and something of the extent of the disas ter broke upon the Irishman. "Bring him here !" she commanded, tak ing Xegley's arm. "There, I can man age him! Run and get oils and lint!" He obeyed. The decks were covered with a paste that burned through his shoes. Black clouds were rolling out to sea. Deep thunder of a righteous source answered Pelee's lamentations. The sail ors were fighting fire and carrying their dead. The thin, shaken voice of Pugh came from the bridge. The engines were throbbing. "Eight miles at sea! Eight miles at sea 1" Macready repeated. "Th long armed mountain an' what musht the in fightin' have been!" In the store-room, he opened jars of oil and cartons of lint and bandages, for the use of the men ; then rushed back to the cabin with a portion. Nature finds work for strong hearts that have lost their heroes. Xegley's cracked and twisted boots had been removed, and the ashes cleansed from his eyes and ears and mouth. Another valiant nurse had emerg ed from a broken romance. The woman who would have fainted yesterday at the smell of burnt flesh was cutting away the clothing from the captain's shoulder. When the ointments and wrappings had been applied to the skipper's wounds, she helped Macready carry tho unconscious man to a berth. " 'Tis rainin' evenchooalltles out," he muttered genially, noting that the work aa life to her. "We must be nearly in-sbore by this time," she said slowly. Denny's elTervescence was now corked. Pugh had been putting the Madame out to sea since he got control of her. The Irishman felt instinctively that the wom an would want to go ashore, which he didn't propose to allow. On the other hand, although he had nothing to do with the running of the ship, he didn't like the Idea of saving the Madame at the price of her owner's life. "I dunno," he answered carefully. " 'Tis har-rd t' see fur th' rain." His soft magic failed. "But the ship-is moving!" she exclaim ed. "Denny, open the door!" Macready gave way. She heard the Bteady beat of the engines, and the big seas driving past. She rushed out of the passageway, regardless of the flood, and peered over the main deck railing. There was no smoke, no familiar shadow of hills, but a leaden, tumultuous sky and the rollers of the open sea, beaten by a torrential shower. She crossed the char red planking to the starboard side, drench ed to the skin In an instant. There was no Pelee, no Saint Pierre! Macready tried to draw her to cover, but she turned ipon him furiously. "You have let them put to sea you, his friend while he Is held back there, waiting for his ship?" "What could poor Dlnny, that bosses th' galleys, ma'am, do toward runnln' the ship? Thlm byes 'ud say, 'GJt back t' your patty-pans, you wipe !' But I've thrled, sure, t' kape th' lady from harum this day. You know Captain Negley " "Where's tho first officer?" "Dead, ma'am." "And tho second officer?" "Th same." "Who Is putting out to sea?" "Third Officer ,Pugh, Jn tho name av bin dlrthy eowl." . . "Is that Pugh on the bridge?" "Ut 1." X moment later the officer in oil klna turned to face an apparition, wind-swept uuu urcnencu as it risen from tho sea, who pulled at his coat and called above the delugo: "Turn back to tho cityl Didn't they tell you thai Mr. Constable is there and needs his ship?" "Go below, miss. I'm trying to save his ship for him." In a stunned way she stared nt the oiiicer; "Don't you know ho was to be back In two hours?" Pugh whirled around to Macready, who was standing behind the woman. "Ypn don't seem able to manago one passenger," he said In an ugly tone. "I'm short-hand ed, but I'll get help for you 1" The Irishman was too wise to rcnly. "But you must turn back 1" the woman cried hopelessly. "Captain Xegley would never leave his owner to die back there !" Captain Negley is not in command now," Pugh said, his small eyes burning wickedly. "Get below or I'll call the sail ors to help you do.wn. I don't need a woman and a sniveling valet to help me run the ship." Lara turned to the ladder, brushed back the drenched hair from her eyes, and said coldly, slowly, "I see there Is a coward In command !" For that one Instant she was a vivid replica of her mother. Tho vlperlne face of Pugh turned ashen under her eyes. Beaching the main deck, she told Mac- ready to bring two sailors Into the own er's cabin. A moment later she was bend ing over the unconscious form of the ship's commander in the berth. She selz ed his well hand. "Captain Xegley! Oh, Captain Cap tain Xegley!" Her Voice ranged higher. The lips of the seaman moved. "It Is I Miss Stansbury! Listen to me just once ! Pugh is a coward a cow ard. He is running away ! Mr. Consta ble is still ashore, and wc are miles at sea miles out to sea !" In a slight opening of the bandages appeared a dazed gray eye. "Do you hear, Captain Xegley? The coward Is running away, and Mr. Consta ble is ashore ! Pugh coward I" Xature was trying to right herself in the brain of the stricken seaman. In the gray eye, she watched the struggle as she impressed her message. It was torture to bring him back. He asked If the fires were out. He asked for Laird and Plass. The simple problems of time and place were mountains to him. Macready entered with two sailors. "Command Pugh to turn about! Oh, speak for me -.for me!" she implored. Xegley tried to rise. "Bring Pugh here!" he mumbled. It was a sweet duty for Macready, whose colors had been lowered In the presence of the woman. Pugb gave an order to the man at the wheel, and fol lowed the Irishman below. Lara had held the light In the gray eye. "What do you mean by putting nut without the owner?" Xegley demanded thickly. Pugh's black eyes roved from the face of his superior to the eallors; to the drenched woman who had caused It all : to the hated Macready at the door. Xhey were enemies all. "As I explained to the lady, I was trying to save the ship," he xald. "Turn back to tne naroor at once full speed!'; Pugh hesitated. "Turn back, I say ! Get out of here !" "But a fire-fly couldn't live In there. sir!" , . "Put him In Irons you r.en !" Xegley commanded the sailors. "Macready, lift me to the bridge!" CHAPTER XVI. Tr wn after eleven when the 'Madame de Stael regained the harbor. The cloud burst had spent itself. Out from :he land rolled an unctuous smudge which bore suggestions ot tne Heinous impartial ity of a great conflagration. The harbor u-n fluttered with wreckage, a doom-pic ture for the eyes of the seamen. Dimly, fitfully, through the pall, they saw the the shlnDlnc black hulls with out helm or hope. The Madanw tnted a deep-toned roar, but no answer was re turnednot b voice from tha wreckage, not the scream of a gull. A pallor heaved the lead, and the scathed steamer bored Into the rising beat. Ahpnd was emnt ness. The woman was standing forward on the main deck. Tho wind tunnelled tnrougn tne smoue, ana she saw the hills shorn of her city. The hope that the guns of Pelee hid been turned seaward was crushed with other hopes. A cry was wrung from her breast at last. The anchor chain was dropped, and two men were bearing the brave Xegley down from the bridge, macready hastened to the woman's side. "Arrange to get a small boat, uenny. We must co ashore :" she commanded, re covering self-possession. Macready felt tuat it was now iimo io force matters. "You can't go ashore yet, lady J" he ex claimed. "I cud bako a potatle here, sure, in tho holla av my hand, what, thin, must It bo In that pit av dlshtructlon?" He was staring In a smoke-staincu ince. The purpose there was immovable as granite. The volco that he heard made him wince with fear, lest sue snouiu oi rect upon hlra words such as had been 'ugh's portion. "Mr. Macready, get a small boat ready ! am going ashore." "Sure, an' I'll go wit' you, ma'am, he said hastily. t Hid nnt think you would withhold your aid from him, Denny. Make haste," she added gently. The sailor whom uenny persuaucu iu ........ nv tiiom was the old Hon. Ernst, who had held tho launch at the pier so long, and who had been reneveu tor me last trip. Water, medlcjncs, food, spirits nud many cakes of Ice, thickly wrapped In tarpaulin, were placed In a small boat. The woman suffered horself to bo garbed according to the Ideaa of Macready. One of Constable's pith helmets was upon her head; his rain coot was buttoned about her, the sleeves rolled up to her hands! and a pair of his shoes was laced over her own. It was difficult to move about In this regalia, but it kept off tho wlthcrlug draughts. Tho boat was lowered. A half-hour later, they were forced to put back to tho shin. Ernst was whim "perlng nt the oars, his Hps twisted in ng ony. Macready was silent, an eloquent signnl of his falling endurance. Lnra had not swooned ; her will was not broken, but conditions had been encountered which flesh could not conquer. The boat was pulled about to tho lee of the steamer, nnd at a port-hole glass she saw tho sneering face of Pugh. still In Irons. There in tho boat tho three renewed thetr strength, and' another terrlflo down pour enme to nld them. Lara sat In tho stern, hands and Hps tense, during tho cloudburst. It-was nearly two In tho nf- ternoon when the boat was bnlled, tho stock of lco replenished, and a second start made. The sailors gave them a cheer. B-eepor ajid deeper In toward the gray, low bench tho llttlo boat was pulled, Its occupants the first to look upon tho heap ed and running over measure of Saint Pierre's destruction. Denny and Ernst took turns at the oars, sometimes pulling a slnglo blade together. Rare running mates, they wore, odd hs two white men could be, but matched to a hair In cour age. Ernst bent to his work, a grim, stolid mechanism. Denny jerked at tho oars, and found breath nnd energy re malnlng to assail Pugh, with his barbed and poisoned tongue. The woman, In tho stem of the boat, knelt before them, prnls lng, cooling their faces with Ice, her words often incoherent, but her spirit unconquer able. (To be continued.) NOT A MENACE. We Are Dctter Oil tor Some Iniml' Rrnnln Wo Itccclvc. . "You like tils perhaps?" said the pretty Syrlnn woman, holding out some crocheted luce toward the ludy of tho house. It wns In n Xew York home, nnd there wns possibly something In. congruous nbout the beautiful sur roundings nnd tile poorly clnd womnn seated on the flopi lu the midst of her lnces nud embroideries. The Incongru Ity did not strike either mistress or visitor, however, for each wns, In her way, dignified nnd simple. "Do you mnke these things here?" nsked the lndy, Interestedly. "I hnve innde them nt home, In Sy- rln. I hnve not long beeu In your coun try two dnys onlce." "Ah! Dtd you hnve to pay much duty on them?" Tho lndy was think ing of her own experiences with th? customs ofllcers. A smile lighted the little Syrlnn's fnce nB she answered. "I pny not ono cent Some sny to me, 'Emptee your pillow and sew nil your things Inside, like we. But I tell them, 'No, I will not begin new life In n new coun try with deceit. We nre Chrlstlnn.' I went to the customs ninn nnd I sny, Plense see my things. They are nil I hnve, but they cost not much mon ey.' " 'DIs lnce,' he sny, 'how much It cost?' "'I mnde It,' I tell him. 'It cost the thread onlee three cent.' " 'I make you no chnrge for thnt, sny the man, 'now much this em broidery? " 'It Is onlee the cloth nnd thread thnt cost thirty cent, I tell him. I made nil myself. He chnrge me not one cent, nnd I go bnck nnd sny to tho others, 'iJook! Is It not better to bo honest?' " 'But why did you lenve your benu tlful country? I'm nfrnld you will find It hnrd to get on here," said the lndy, sympnUietlcally, opening her purse. "Ah, Syrln Is no nioro beautiful to us," said the little womnn, sadly. There we arc what you call It7 persecute because we nre Chrlstlnn," she snkl, ns she accepted the money for her lnce and began to pack her cases. "My mnn, ho stand one day on the street, nnd a boy run by and cry out. when he pass, nnd sny thnt my litis- bnnd tnke money from him. My bus bnnd is good mnn. He not steal from nny one, but because he Is Chrlstlnn ho rnust pay the money. It Is nlwnys so. Here we can be what you cnll It? freedom, and the good God will help UB." "Eleven thousand three hundred nnd. forty-three foreigners landed In the port of Xew York yesterday," rend the man of the house tho next morning. "The highest dny's record. Well, what Is uolng to become ofus nil!" said lie. "What, n 'menace they nil nre!" "No. not all," replied the lndy across the breakfast tnble, nnd she begun to tell hlrn of the little Syrian woman. Youth's Companion. The Fickle Hummer Mnld. n,i.ini r.iti nt- flw RoiiHhnrn ills- covered diamonds In the surf. Did you er discover nny jewels when you were hcrc? Vnn Albert I thought I discovered u Jewel last summer, but after she jilted ino I camo to the conclusion that sho was only an Imitation. The coal supply of tho Philippines has boon found to bo much larger thnu was anticipated and of a uniformly good character. It Is stated that a largo vein crosses tho entire group of Islands and it hns been clearly traced lu ono vicinity for twonty-IIvo miles. Municipal pawnshops hnve beon ipened in Pekln for tho relief of tho residents who liavo been horetoforo tho victims of extortlonnto private es tablishments. Tho city charges aro 15 per cent, while they liavo been pay ing 150. Tho day Is always his who works In It with sincerity and great nlni.- Clianulug. luLTAN'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN PUBLIC. if V'c .' fi :f M'-ita! 1 -4L f.T Tv 7 m0M.A ABDUL 1IA.MID, SULTAN OF TUHKHY. Perhaps tho most astonishing receut chniitfu In Turkey In that which Is represented by tho spectacle of tho Sultan tnklng n drive. Until tho thrcnt eued advance of two army corps upon Stamboul forced Abdul Hnmld to revive the constitution of 1870 tho commander of tho faithful newer had dared to Bhow himself outside tho precincts of Ylldlx kiosk, except for tho Frldny drive to tho Selamlk In the Hamtdlch mosque, which is prnctlcnlly within the grounds of the palace. By thus showing himself freely to his people Abdul Hamld has done n good stroko of business for himself, because tho Turk Is a patient beast of burden, absolutely loyal to his pndlshnh, nnd only asking not to bo ridden to death by corrupt pitshas and palace favorites. Hence tho public appearances of tho Sultan have beeu tho occasion of n scries of out bursts of perfectly sincere loynlty. By n recently patented movnblo mold, a well organized force of laborers can lay 2 feet of cement sidewalk per minute. A practically permanent pnlnt, n rich brown In color, Is mnde by grind ing tho bones of mummies with bitumen. Although iron ore Is found In almost every Stnto nnd territory In the Union, It Is mined profitably In only twenty- nine. A Pittsburg firm Is making n special ty of glass grave "stones," which show portraits of the deceased blown In the front Contracts hnvo been nwnrded for nl- most 10,000 tons of dynamite for use on tho Panama cnnnl within the next twelve months. Tho Island of Formosa exported 4,121.500 pounds of camphor last year, of which 1,035,300 pounds camo to the United States. patent has been granted to an at tachment to a rocking chair to operate a fan to cool tho occupant while sway ing to and fro. Tho United Btntes produced 5.00-1 long tons of mangnneso last year, worth f'24.703, moro than uny previous year except 1002 nnd 1000. Over $225,000 hns been subscribed to the Koch eudowment to be applied to n crusade against tuberculosis, under tho direction of Dr. Koch. A company Is being formed at St. Louis with 2,000,000 capital to oper- ato n lino of steel barges between that city nnd Now Orleans. , A Philadelphia foundry makes a spe cialty of breaking up old steel ennnon and rcmeltlng tho metal for moro thnn hnlf n hundred purposes. A compressed nlr buffer hns been pntentcd for locomotives which, It Is claimed, will prevent a serious wreck In the event of a collision. Wax obtained by boiling crude ozo cerite, obtained from tho bituminous shales of central Poland nnd Hungary, Is used for candles by the pensnnts. Tho result of observations of doublo stars mado from 1830 to 1007 at tho observatory at Cambridge, Englnnd, soon will bo published In book form. Moro thnn 100,000,000 lobsters were propagated and set freo by tho fish commission Inst year, with tho result that tho price was cut almost In half. A Russian Inventor has brought to tho United States a motor bont which ho claims will mnko a speed of thirty- ono miles an hour with a 12-horso power engine. Moro rapid changes In anlmnl nnd regotnblo life, says Science, aro taklm? placo In Now Zealand than almost any where elso In tho world. Tho natlvo Polynesian race Is disappearing boforo tun jsuropoan: tlio nntlvo wild an mnls amount to llttlo In contest with im. ported species, many of which now run wiia: tlio streams aro full of Amnri. can and European trout, which attain an onormous slzb; and even tho forests aro to bo replaced by planting foreign trees ns tho nntlvo ones dlsnppear. Eleven million larches, oaks, spruces, Douglas flrs and cucnlypts hnve nlrcndy Ik'cii planted, nnd vnst numbers of seed ling nre coming In nil the time. Tho reason for replacing tho native trees with species from the United Stntcs, Europo nnd Australia Is that thoiio of New Zenlnnd nro too slow of growth, nlthough some of them produco excel lent timber. Tho Implantations thrive everywhere. Tho older countries having beet, stripped of their forests. In mnny enses to tho dntiger-polnt, search Is nowjie lng made for valuable woods In newer lands. Among theso Is Brazil, which Is known to possess enormous wealth of this kind. Already the great Urn zlllnn forests are beginning to feed tho sawmills which are ropldly being erect ed. It hns beeu remarked that not withstanding tho vast Incrcaso In tho use of metal all over the world, tho demand for wood Is still growing. Many of the forests of Brazil are yet so fur from the rallronds that they renin In In compnratlve safety, but others nro feeling the nx. An Increasing qunntlty of timber finds Its wny from tho In terior to Rio do Janeiro, where It Is used for packing-boxes, match manu facture, and many other purposes, and a note of alarm Is sounded by thoso who have learned what It means to strip a country of lis forest resources without providing for their rencwnl. POINTING THE BONE, Queer Hnpemllltiiu of (lia .VnUro Illnckn nf Anatrulln. The natlvo blacks of Australia nr. steeped In superstition. A black fellow will on no account go near tho spot where another black has been burled. Ho hns n deep rooted aversion to ono particular bird tho wagtail bocause, ho says, "him all day talk, talk along a white feller, tellum all about block feller," and no opportunity Is lost of killing theso llttlo birds. Many tribes "bury" their dead l sticking them up Into tho forks of trees and thcro leaving them till tho flesh has either dropped or been taken, leav ing the bones clean. Theso bones nro then taken down, tho Inrger ones burled and tho smallest handed round ns keep sakes to thoso nenrly rclnted to tho do censed. Should one blnclc fellow wish the dentil of a rival or enemy ho points the bone at him. This means that ho takes ono of his lato relation's bones from his dllly bng nnd points it, In tho presence of witnesses, nt tho mnn ho wishes to get rid of, nil tho tlmo pour lng forth threats and curses. Strango as It may seem, tho one pointed at will often languish and even tually die, perhaps lu a month, porhaps In a year, for no sooner Is tho bono pointed than he mnkes up his mind to die, and thorn Is no saving 111 m. Lou don Standnrd, Dlfrerunt Opinion. "I seo a mnn Intends to lot a rnttlo snnko blto him nnd depend on prnyor for a cure, I call that faith." "I call It cruelty to animals unless somebody's going to pray for tho snako after It's bitten such a fool as thnt." Phllndclphla Ledger. 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