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ftWWS ffiflgSlhfc ,.. (i. K.'yiMtv T . "atffta Miii3V3-3ier ; nsaOTQp saviour ' ' - 'Tr n irr , - - MS6'3a Stories of Adventures In Love By Walt Gregg T "T - , """""a tfpBMMMBMMMiWBiaMyctaiaijtMry,J.---t'-(B -tvi K:;-'vuWMtmmmmmmmMimfgtMHBK&BGK&'MBB11'' """s sssssslsiis""-"""' HAT reminds mo of how I got my wife," tlic llttlo inun Biild, with u reminiscent Binllo playing nhotit his time - marked w3!l fffm Vo wcr J uaii-nozcn or us, looking through tho long, sagging, riiBtod utcol rail Hint Bniltined ll derm nlinatn t II. i,,, ..M. r the track and aomo dlstanco below. Except for u few brokan, rotten tlos nnd brokon timbers fur below, und suggestions of tho companion rail at either end, It was all that was left at that point of tho old cog-whccled rail road that onco worked Its winding, la borious way up Mount Ban Antonio, long boforo tho building of tho mod ern electric road. It made ono think of tho broken gun carriages und debris of an old battlefield; ono of tho battlo flclds of mun's long war against na ture. "So7" I said, looking quickly Jrom tho Btccl cobweb far down tho moun tain to the llttlo man In tho seat back of mo. "8o7 How's that7 Toll us nbout It." "Second 111 Second tho motion," cumo In n chorus from tho othors. "Lct'n have tho nlory." Thero had been a dirt slldo or some thing on tho track ultcnd of us and tho train was delayed. Hut tho mountuln sunBhlno, streaming In through tho car windows, was glorious, tho sllont gran deur or tho great hills was all nbout, tho Brooking car wob comfortable, and now If n good story could bo uncorked some yarn with tho ring of ro mances and adventuro In It nobodv A H lay in (ho lund locked harbor of Guayuius. Thoro wasn't u breath of air stirring und tho atmosphere was very much llko that or the Htcamroom In u linmmum hath. The crow tosaod on tho hutch covors. trying to- sleep, their slumbors dis turbed by tho continual splashing or tho red snappers jn tho tepid wntor about tho anchor chain, nnd tho moB qultoos, which Hwnrmed out from tho steaming morass Just back ot tho vuguo strip or hcuch. Tho mate, who hud been loaning over tho mil, contemplating tho tdars In that absorbed way thut sallormen do, brouthed heavily. "Hah," ho Blglicd and paused. "Thoy say thoro uro throo hot places. Well, wo'ro In ono of thorn; tho other Is Gunyaqiitl nnd tho other whoievor that Is." Ho was u soft-voiced man for a mate, nnd hadn't boon Inclined to talk much during tho voyago up tho torpid gulf, uu It wub ruthor u surprlso whon ho stretched himself In u long enno cbalr und announced: "I'm going to tell you a story that you won't bollovo. Hot tropic nights llko thin ulwayB bring It keenly to my WSBW "I " I II WSW.WWi HjWipW" OD KBLY KEBVER. nev er bud a homo In all tho nineteen years or her lire. Sho hud been born in a hospital, had worried through her babyhood in u cheap lodging house, und at two iimt eono on tho road with her parents, who woro third rato nctora In a Block company. Sho hud u nurse Until sho wus eight, und then sho wus put into it school. -Vacation tlmea bIio spout with a frlond or hor mother who ran u hoarding Iioubc. Two or thrco times a year sho saw hor parents. Sometimes she had spending money and good clothes, and somo tlmea bIio hud no money ut till und hor clothes woro very bud. Through nil those upa and down or fortuito Loely trudged hor innocent way. Sho studied without muklug re markable progress. Bho practiced up on tho piano without n sign r talent, und sho read because bIio was a cheap actor's daughter, und thu rest alio let ulono. , . . Nothing Btuck to her, nolthor frlriuls nor learning nor niorul smudge. When ever Mrs, Hoevcr camo tu bco tho ijlrl. alio sighed over her u great dcul. "You're Just llko your Griiuny Worth," uho auld. "I'm Biire, Leoly, I don't know what I shall do with you." Loely auld nothing, but sho wo'ider cd what hor Giundniothor Worth was like . "You can't dauco for sour tipplea, WBSM Els jjMj cared When tho old train reached Squirrel Tavern up at Jhe Summit. Tho six of us wcro total strangers to each other, and yet, In a moment, with out passport or qulbblo, wo came into that happy democracy that occasion brings. Tho little man, with the twlnklo of pleasant memories In his eye, settled hlmuolf In his car scat and began loud lng his plpo for a smoke. "Have u cigar," ho begged, finding scvoral In an Insldo coat pocket and proffering them about. "I smoko a pipe, but I always carry a few cigars with mo for my friends." Wo thanked him, lighted up, and began filling tho compartment with haze, like bluo mountain vistas, and waiting for tho story to begin. ,Aftcr puffing In silence a few mo ments tho llttlo man spoke. "My courtship und marrlago took just ubout ten minutes," ho said. "I had never soon my wife nbovo ton minutes heforo I married her, nor alio me. Nolthor of us know tho other's nnrnc, oven, un til wo Btood boforo tho preachor who marrlod us." That sounded good as a starter, and wo all bent forward. "Hut don't think this was any mar-rlago-ln-hastc-and - ropent-at - leisure business," ho warned ub. "Oe any qulck-flro elopement with a divorce kick-back. No, Blr! Tho story I'm telling you happened thirty years ago, and Mary's up at the tavern now, wait ing for me. See these gray hairs? I'vo got a sou hcavler'n you, sir." And ho estimated my two hundred pounds with his oyo as I stood smoking In tho alHle. "Thirty years ago I was a cook In n resort hotel at Aubcrt'a Camp over In the San llcrnurdltio mountains. Thero Tale Of A'Specter memory, und may bo It will servo to ,pusq tho tlmo. It's ono of thoso ex periences thut, perhaps, a man is bet tor off uot to liuvo had, or, If ho has, that ho Is able to forgot. Hut thoro are somo things you can't forget no nintter how rar you travel and how many ycurs havu passed In their wake." Ho foil to watching tho stars again und wild nothing for n while. "Heforo I went Into steam," ho con tinued presently. "I wub second mate nn tho old barkenttne Melunopo, hlch Is now ending her days an a cout Mine In ono or tho ports or tho North Pu rine. Wo had ror sklppor 'Hully' Thompson, u master with a record for brutality thut wus almost equal to his reputation ub a smart navigator. Ills naino wau tt byword In tho boarding houses, and It was only when berths wore Hcarco that ho wus able to ship u orow of lunula who hud heard of him In tho fo-c'Btlcs of othor ships. For driving men ho was without a pcor, Often ror his own amusemout ho would llko nothing better than to sond tho men aloft to 'crow llko roosters' ub he usod to say watching with dov lllsh gloo from tho poop their unties on tho yard arms. "My stars what u change In the sea faring gumo now! Twenty years ngo tho soul of a sailor belonged either to " ' t- ' u ie went on Mrs. Ilcovor In exasperation, "and you haven't any moro Idea of elo cutlon than u frog. I don't know what you'll turn out to be. It looks to mo us If you'll never bo ublo to take euro of yoursolf, und I'm sure your pa und mo cun't do It much longer. Our lust engagement only lasted six weeks, und goodness knows where we'll got another, Tho moving pic tures uro Just ruining tho show busi ness. Ami ua ror your getting mar ried, who'll you marry? It's the prot ty girls that muko the good matches, and you can see what you are by look lug In tho glass." Leoly had looked In the gluss and know, Sho had freckles and dull hair and a big mouth, und bIio was grave und quiet. Sho was like Granny Worth, hor mother said, "What kind of u woman wua fi la ti ny Worth?" alio naked suddenly. Mrs. Keovcr sighed, "bho wns tho best woman thut ever lived, but sho luuln't a mite of talent. My gifts all come from pa's aide of tho house.' Leely'a eyea looked tnr nwaj. "I'm going to bo u good woman, too," alio said, Bolomnly. "And some day may be I shall havo u homo to bo good In." A year later Mrs. Keever wroli to her daughter, sulng ruthor bitterly thut thoy wero "down and outois" at lust, and wcro giving up tho stago for ever. Mr, Keever had borrowed a llt tlo money and wus going into the "movie" "business. He would take ihe tickets, ah would sell them; thoy had hired a mtm to run tho lantern and they wunteu Lcely to play tho piano. wan tijloop chasm near the hotel that was crossed by a sagging rail of an old, abandoned narrow-gauge truck, for all tho world llko that down yon der. Well, I hud athletic ambitions In thoso days." (The compact, lltho flguro, In spite of tho close-cropped, gray hair, boro this out, all right.) "I wanted to be a tlght-ropo orhlgh wlro performer, and, nmatcur-HUo. I practiced walking that suspcnnlou bridge rail until It ceased to be oven interesting, nnd I longed for more worlds. Tho hotol and resort puoplo kopt a smull menagerie, Including a Hon or two, and vurloim attractions for tho amusoment of tho guests on the other sldo of this canyon, prob ably a mllo from tho hotel ltuolf. The yqting rcllow in churgo of tills animal sliow, Hilly Sims Dllly nftorward went to Alaska was u chum of mine, and, Instead of going around by n per fectly safo mountain road and foot bridge, I was in tho habit of short-cutting It across this rail when off duty, and visiting Hilly and the other ani mals. "As I say, 1 walked tho rail until It censed to amuse. 1 walked It for ward and backward, with and with out u balancing pole, and carried all sortB of bunions across It for tin en tertainment of tho other hotel help, and sometimes guests, too, who stood on tho mountuln sldo and watched me. I Invented feats until I began to feel myself out of tho amateur class and qulto professional. In fact, I was In dustriously saving my wages against trying myself out as a real porformcr. I was full of Ideas. I thought of noth ing else. I didn't know us much about lovo us a 11 si i docs, nnd girls didn't come within my kin. In abort, to per a boardtng-houso muster or u skipper. Thero wub no redress for the A. ft. in tho courts, nnd ownolU' didn't Inqulro too deeply Into tho methods of their captains so long us thoy inndu clip pussagos und kept expenses down. A captain whoso galley bills woro ut ebb und who kept down IiIb request m for new gear und clean mattresses far tho crow wus ulwayB patted on tho back by tho agents. Hut I'm getting away rrom my atory." Tho mate put his hand into his thin shirt and brought out n llttlo object suspended on u cord. It was n tiny silver horseshoe "You'll luugh," ho suld quietly, "but this la what I firmly hcllovo saved tho Melunopo and all hands going to tho:r doom. Sallormun superstition, you will say, but It's true. Ab ror tho llttlo girl who gave It to mo " ho stopped abort. "Thnt'a another Btory," ho udd cd In a whlspor. "Well, what had often been predict ed In tho places where sailors homo rrom tho sen congrcguto happened. It waa Just such n night us this thut wo lay In tho harbor or Guayaquil, Tho captain, coming aboard after an even ing ashoro, wont forward nnd tho usual abuse of tho men followed, f was stundlng In tho waist of tho ship when 1 beard u cry which wus thu lust ut tered by tho sklppor. Ono of tho bunds, a big Finn, with a belaying pin. hud rwarryjwwui unpsffwwwww" And You Thero waa something she could do ut last. Loely gavo up school and Joined her pnreuta. For three years alio played in various moving picture places, for they wore always on tho wing. Some times they hud mouoy and sometimes they had none. It was u precarious oxlstonce. At last they cumo to Westmoro and opened the Uljott. Tho HIJou wus a long, narrow, dark building built of concrote. It had boon useless a long tlmo. for thoro was another und bet ter theater. Howover, It Is tho now broom that sweeps cleanest, and tho KeeVers' pictures wero soon drawing crowds. In a dim cornor near tho screen Leoly played tho o)d upright piano, Sho had strong wrists, and even rftor eight hours or ragtime was not too tired to sleep. Sho never looked ut tho screen nor the crowd, for Bho hut ed both. Bho hated her ow.u music. Sho hated tho life sho lived. Hut tor hor dreams sho would havo died. Olio night a tire broke out In the building noxt to tho UIJou and Blurted u panic. There wub a rush ror the doors. Leoly had seen such things be roro. Her rather was doing his best to quiet tho crowd. Leoly mounted the piano stool and began to toll thoso nearest hor who wero trying to climb over each other's backs that there was no danger Ho was holding a child high over his head. Leoly understood tho utixtoty In his face. She reached out und got the child und set her upon tho pluuo. Then she stood beroro hor form on the tight wire, travel with some show, and pull down big money was tho holght and depth and length und breadth of my ambl;:on. "But ono day Mary Goodman came to my life llko a lettor from homo with money In it, nnd sho'a been a part of It ever since. It was all on uccount of Congo, the male lion. Congo got mad ono day, put Hilly out of tho gumo with a broken shoitldor, leaped through tho cago door over his keeper's body, und escaped to the spruce timber on that sldo of the canyon. "Mury wub over thero at tho llmo and alone. She was a guest at tlui ho tel with her father and mother, rich tourists from tho East. Sho wob nat uraliy adventurous nnd during, and liked to tako long hlkcu ubout the bills, armed with nothing deadlier than somo brushes and canvas. Well, tho Hon soon tnado It known ut tho hotel that ho was at liberty and didn't rare ' who know it. Tho nolso ho mado was blood-curdling, nnd wltli it camo tno nows that u girl wus over thero and in duugor. "I wns ono of tho first to scu her. standing terror-stricken and paralyzed with fright at tho very brink of tho rockB that walled tho precipice on that side, and I know tho party of at mod horsemen that was organized to go around by tho road and wagon bridge fully four miles would never reach her In time. "So I stripped off everything but trousers und shirt, and went aftor that girl across tho sagging steel rail. It wus h teat I had never ut tempted ha fore, nor anything llko It, and it prom ised to be us difficult as It wns unex pected. Hut It was a cubo of Hfu and death, and It was up to mo to do my rolled tho captuln llko an ox. 'Dully' Thompson dhjjl, cursing.- "'Tho ship .will never reach homo,' ho vowed beroro ho passed out. 'He mombor,' ho laughed, with tho death rattle In IiIb throut. 'Tho ship will nover reach ' "The consul Investigated tho case, and upon the testimony or tho men that ho had struck tho captain In solf defense, tho big Finn was given Ills liberty. Five or tho hands dosortcd und wo hud to ship us many Chileans to muko up u full company. Tho big Finn, howover, sullenly stuck to his berth. Tho first mate took commnnd ot the barkentlne, und nftcr the dis charge or our lumber cargo, wo aiiunr ed uwuy In ballast ror Calluo, where wo were to toad u curgo or ultralo ror home. "Tho crow was restless. Thoso who had remained woro continually talking nbout tho old man's threat. Their fears hud boon communicated to tho Chileans nnd us tho days punned it was with difficulty that tho mute and I could got them to stand watch un less thrco at them wcro together, lhey socmed to scont tho supernatural. "As wo neared our destination wo run Into a violent storm, which put the decks awash und stripped us of sev eral pieces of canvas. In tho grave situation of tho moment, battling ngulust tho clomentB, tho fears of thu and got her attention rrom what was buppenlng. "Thero wub no occasion ror u scarp," Leoly suld. "The flro was all outside. Seme Tool started It nil by Jumping up und screaming. Hor rather cumo back, gloomy and swearing. "It's a shamo just when wo'd got this thing started on a pay lug basis," ho growled. "What'd jou stop playing tor, Loely? Why didn't you go right on when you aaw whut wns lip?" "I got up on tho piuuo bench und talked to tho crowd, rather," Leely an swered quetly. "Thou this man gave mr his little girl."' "I've beon thanking your duiurhter for wint she did," tho man answered. "She seoniB to be wonderfully clear headed." Ho begun to talk to her father. Lee ly learned that his name wus Tlmrou Dodge, and thut he worked for the "Express," and thut ho wus willing to help them out with a llttlo notice In tho next dally bulletin. All Uils pltus id her futher and he wua in fairly good humor when they closed up tho thcuter and went homo together. Leoly nover expected to see Thoron Dodge or Elslo again, but to her sur prlso they were at Ihe show next even ing. After tho first act Elsie brought Leoly a box of carnations. Thoy woro tho first flowers the girl had over re ceived, and sho told the mau so when she thanked him. After that he und Elslo camo about twice u week uhd always sat In tho sumo plueo. And they never weut out best. It didn't tako abovo two min utes to rush down to tho hotol sldo of tho chasm and cover the fifty feet of rail bridging it. It was going back with a woman In my nrma and under tho breathless gazo of ti fast-gathcjlng crowd on the hotel sldo and wllli nn awful bciibo of responsibility, that wus to bo the test. "Hut tho Instant I reached her nnd looked In her eyes I felt encouraged. For I knew sho hud nerve and com mon sense. I saw It In her eyrs. The fact thai sho wolghed Iras than u hun dred pounds wns u minor advantage Tho main thing was her courage sho wasn't tho hysterical kind. "'Now,' I said to her, 'I'll carry you across In perfect safety If you'll ahut your oyes, keep still, make yourself perfectly limp and trust mo do you understand? trust mo! Don't movo a inuoclo or mnko a sound, only trust me. Will you do It?' "Sho said sho would, and wo start ed. Tho feat would bno beon i:otli Ing for u professional, with tho fa'rly steady, broad steel rail a comparative ly light burden. Hut mind you. f wan only an amateur In thoso days, und I hud never performed In public, much less fuccd n terrible responsibility. Hut I wub strong us a young hull, and nev er in my life up to that hour had I known I lift sensation of fear. So I braced my muscles like a mechanism of Iron, concentrated my mind on my task and with my burden firmly group ed In my arms, planted my baro foot llimly on the rail und began taking utep after step out, out, over tho abyss below. "I hud uot gono fivo curcful. meas ured stops when a strungn thing hap pened. Illght thero and then, with tho crow wcro for tho tlmo rorgottcn. Tho third night or tho gale thero camo a moderation In tho weather, although a terrific cross sea was running und tho vessel yawed frightfully In tho grip of tho watery uvnlunchos. Wo had pebble ballast, and ns it had not boon very carefully stowed, tho danger or It shifting confronted us. This was tho only tlmo tlut I really thought of tho old man's ominous prediction that wo would never reach homo. Had tho ballast shifted wo would havo turned turtle and that would havo been our end, for no small (mat could llo In such u sea. "As I suld, tho yawning or tho bar kentlne wus frightful. Two men woro n quired ut tho wheel, and during the dog watch It wus tho big Finn und myself who struggled with tho spokes uu tho waves slammed tho rudder and combed up over tho counter. "All of a sudden, Just as u black bquull struck us, I had thut uncanny, indetlnnblo feeling u subtlo some thing thut comes to a inun out of tho night ut sea that u presence was near me. nnd thou It wub borno In upon my consciousness thut a Btrungo powor was guiding my hand ut tho wheel. I becamo nwuro that wo wcro getting sovorul points off our course. Tho sticks trembled, sending a shudder through iho ship. Wo got hor atiudy again, but once moro an IrrosUtible of the building without having mo ttling to sny to Leoly, As for Leoly, hor dream hud auducn ly crystulllzed Into hopo. She wu3 so happy that sho wondered ut hcrseir. Tho sight or Thcron Dodgo's kind, gentle faco compensated her fully ror the long hours or tedious labor ut tho pluno und ror everything else thai had been unpleasant in her lire. Thou suddenly hor rather decided to move on to another town whore thero was no competition, It seemed to Leely as H sho would rather die. That night sho told Therou Dodge that they wero going away. THE CHANGE BAN wus an undent ubly pretty girl, und ub Bho tripped down to breakfast In her freshly luundored mllircd shirt - wulst, and black tie. siin re sembled .v convent girl rather than curlv rlslncr Htv steiiutsiapiiti. Her family greeting, however, be lied hor appearance. "It makes mo sick to havo to get up so early," go ing on to tell her patient, care-worn llttlo mother, "that sho never did cook things to suit her anyway," and threatening to find u new boarding house, Llttlo did sho reallzo how these cut- 1 M&v t girl's and my own lite at biuku, with her parents and othors on tho hotel sldo holding their breath In agony and turning their eyes away In sheer 1 or ror, and with tho roar of that Hon In the woods back of ub, with death bo low and death behind, I fell In lovo. Queer tlmo und place to full in lovo, wasn't It7 Hut right there and then I fell In love with that girl, i had ncvor scon hor boforo und didn't oven know her name. Hut when I folt hor obeying mo so exnctly( and when J saw her cloBcd eyes and tho smllo of su preme courage and stlprcmo eoiill denco In her upturned face and folt her courugo oozing out. of every poto In hor body and welling up through mo, I vowed to myself then und thoro that I would auve her nnd marry her though all tho chasms of the world should yawn below or between uu. "With the coming of that fcclli-K or love und divine purpose all thought of rear left me. I felt buoyed up and happy as though pinioned on wings. I forgot tho deadly aonso or respon sibility and Hitapcnoe. I heard voices or angels In my soul rathor than tho hoarso roar of tho Hon behind me. I forgot the Jagged rocks far below I saw only u rudlunt vision of happiness ahead, and tho narrow, rusted sleel rail beeamo u iihlnlng pathway lend ing mo to II. "We reached tho hotol sldo In uufo ty, and when I put Mury gently down she didn't do a thing but throw her arms around my neck und kiss me nnd whisper, 'I lovo you,' In my our. "Then cttmo more surprlMO In rapid II ro succession. 1 Intended to nii.riy tho girl, sometime somowhore, after tiioro had been Introductions ami prep arations and ti couitnhlp und all that By Will Seaton powor put tho whoel over a nujubor of points. It was useless In our hnnds. "I looked at tho big Finn. In tho dim light of tho blnnaclo his fact wus ghastly. It may havo boon tho cold spray, but ho was" shaking ItKo a tent. His head wub linlff turned around nnd his eyes fixed, with horror, Intently upon something. Ills lips moved, but I could not hear what ho said. If wordB camo, thoy wore drowned In tho rour of tho wutcro nnd tho shriek of the gula through the rigging aloft. "And now I saw tho sight which I shall novor forgot. Ah I Bald before, It's n terrible thing for u man to have had such an oxporlonce. It ataya with you to tho cud. "Following tho horrified guzo of tho big Finn I beheld u straugo appari tion. Tall, commanding, monuilng, against the tnffrall, Btood tho flguro of tho dead sklppor. It woro oilskins und tho sou-wcBtor revealed only n portion or n face, which was wreathed In a sardonic snoor. A red smenr showed on tho brow. Tho eyes rIpmh ed llko phoBphorcsconco rrom under the hood or tho cup. "Tho sweat Btarted rrom my ovory poro and I could havo uppenred no loss rcur-strlckon than tho big Hun, who ucomed On tho vergo of toppling over. Just then I folt tho pressure of tho llttlo horseshoo uguliiBt my breast, and I suw u vision of tho llttlo girl By Annette Angert It wus a bud night und tho audience wus smull. Thoron wultod till Vho shbw wub out, und then ho walkid out besldo Leely, currying Elale, who had gono to sleep. "I reel terrible about this," ho said. "SeoniB llko I couldn't lot you go. Oh. Leoly. I wish you'd stay with L'lslo and me. Wo cun bo murrled tomorrow if you suy so, and I'll bo good to you and give you a good home." Ho paused for Leely wub sobbing. "Oh." sho brouthed. "I've ulwuya wanted u homo, but that's nothing nnw nothing at all to the way I wuut Elslo and you!" ting remarks really hurt her mothor. which words camo back to hor ninny times during the day and how hard hor mothor Btrlved to plcaso her. Immediately upon leaving her ma te inul dwelling hor manner of speech seemed to chango, and upon enteilug tho 7:40, which was to convey her to the city, nnd spying u girl acquaint ance, with a Joyous flmllo Bho roniark cd, "What a perrectly lovoly day; how I'd lovo to tako u long walk In the country this morning." Her compan ion replied thut It certainly was" lovely out, but sho could hardly enter Into tho spirit or tho weather on account or the day marking tho second anniver sary or the death or her mother. Sho told Jean how Just two years ugo she hod left for work as usual ono morning, leaving her mother In per- sort or thine. u. v.. w father, imir. .utrel seized mo by th. V,,!1'! right, my boy, u, J J urn. Z"' '''Icofnyomlnu,,;?! wcro standing i,f.:'5'tti "Hlio hotel and bri...!? and wife. m.... i ""nn l.lalnh,K,omo'th7ffi mu..,B,UCa and -- ukou mo for u m L bothering 1,er aS'taJtf 1 "ml sho had 3 bo as to escape, he cfi h we were both sure, other, why wait? u Andwllhu.; ,, 0,,B" names, and all UuUetX to each other's soul, Z -vUD, mu Vfti;n MU. ninil Ml.... I.. . "I " " "v " u saw lot tn'ltdt miiiln mill .H.1.1...1... . ' learned ropo-walklntudii' "hvmui uu me roaarortai 1m rotipiilK,! Iff. i... . ' . UlL tlio ioriI und Bcttlej&n lan'l il.nl .M.... in ... ..... i ..mi ouiui- flu; utri whistle, und I stmsvcrtn A lialf-hour or u httrttit rlvcd ut the tavern and m hi lng down from Hie hold lb nlnttl tulll. .. MML..L i iuui niui u luuuitrif nunc an on IiIb arm, who tttdt' linflltlAP If. Ikjt .!.. ..II.. if. villi;, IU IIIV BlUIJ ItUtIB: Sho looked as tboujt, ib i nn-pjii'ii (jiii. ui i roxiaH.ui; woman to trust i tun-iba ...III. 1..M llf. ..J It.. mm iii-i nir, nu imafanjl iuiu uu viiiiiu imi iu iji WW3VfBKj$l ut home. Would 1 tnr M again? The ship itlll M trary course, but now. JiJ tl.niioM In mind. I millirtlffl eigy In me, and wrcitltioj rrom the hands of the tlfPifl It over so vlolcntlr tliUti tine came about ltn nearly rolled the mtiti out i. "Tim ncllnn Wtl COM tOO l most on the Instant cast Bj lng awlih and rowcIM hero aim mere-iM v. our Ico quarter shoW foam that marked the )! u rccr. "When I turned my W; mipplpr SS SOUC. w vnmmnrril weirdly." Tho mate ai Icokltj W BIUIB Uftu.u. . "Hut tho Melnop'k breathed. 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