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’Hearts i « 1 i V A N C E One Episode Each Week CHAPTER DC tfltTBOOS MM ten ttaerealsa the pokleet of ttaUa coma tte nora sorely to (to •■MfhaMua. la another hoar or two they weald ha la Portland—(raa at laat la drew breath of aaaa la a load ad lav, order and aaaa Itving. do If In answer to this thoodht, the train Mown! down with whistling Intel to tbo teat blll-sUUo*, aad as #a treats groaned aad moved anrw, • laat of a hoy came gallnolng down brandishing two yrllow ao Sad Matting Uha a at ray calf: LaWT! hi lata Lnwr! TaT I tor Mlata Lawrl” had been expecting at every a prepaid reply to hta wire tor teparviWte oa the night ax preha from Pirttead la Haw fork. Ml WUJ two MTtiopao ncnMOM trmio Mibbotrad, *» GtM own. uafOUad tba is mO at eOaaoa and Aten to Maw Yarh, day attar day. eetiag hta heart a«t wltt ttoiaHarw tor tka ward that tor tha daaghem whoa be had Umpired Aa hoar toto. to dart at aranls* tke train tom bored into Portland Ka and. heart to month, tea helped far bar through the erowd, end almoet nrted her into a taxicab. "Leal hotel to town.* he demanded "And be quick about It—tor a double _ Ha ceasaatoaded hla one dwjv»ret* achema to the girt an route, rw elvtrfi her t&donaaaat of It. Bo, taring rtr latared for bar and aeea bar safely to tha door of the bant available room la tha bouaa within ready call at the pub lic lobby and office, be waahod ap. mlpcd a hasty meal—which Roan had darilaed to ehera, pies ding fatigue— mad harried away Into the night wttb only the negro driver of a pabtlc back, picked ap hephaxard at Mate dUtanoe from tha hotel, lor hie gatda. CHAPTER X. Fwtulty. R* —d Ike batter pert of u boor Id frultlaea ml perhaps 1U adriaad bxjwtrtee; then his task, such a* It was. lad him oa auaplctca don a poorly lighted wharf, at thu ox trams end of whleh ho disc peered a h»aty yoom mao parched atop a ptla bands la pockets, gaaa tamad to a Udo wbcrooa. now black eight had fallen, pallid wraltha of yachts swung jort etslhly beneath imaaar riding* lights. “Pardon ma," Alan rantorad. “bot parhapo yoa aaa balp mo out—* "You're coma to the wrong ahop. my frtond.“ tba yoong man latarpoaad with moron# ctrtlity; “I couldn't help anybody out of anything—tba way I . *Tm cony.” mid Alan, “bat I thought poaufbty you might know wbara I could tad a aaa worthy boat to charter.” Tha young man slipped smartly down from hie Perth. -If yoa doat look Sharp.- ba said omtaoaaty. “you'll charter tba Searenturo." Ha wared bia hand inward a ran il moored alongside tba wharf; “Thera aha la. aad a batter boat you wont find any •bare orhooaarrlggod. kfty feat orar ah, t wenty-dre baraapowar, motor auz IMary. two rtalaroom*—aU randy tar as long a obastwtae ernisa a* yon ears to taka. Cam aboard." Ba lad briskly across tba wharf, dawn a gangplank, than aft along the dash to a sompaaloe way. hr which the two man gained a comfortable aad roomy eabta, bright with trash wblia Bara tba nghd of tha eabta re raalnd to Alan's Marching scrutiny a carriage; with a roughly modeled, goodhumored tana, reddish hair, aad •taady though twinkling Mae eyes. “Hama. Barcas." tha yoaag mas to •rodeoed hlamalf ah serially; “ehrto toaad Thomas. MadrMy. t mart nan. Mato of Ufa, hat broke. There the raW* ha Hlghiil. aad —egged. abas' faond. “1 toued wyeaM hard ap thla spring with this boat oa a«y ton. ■wak scary cant I kid—and than soma —dttlag out oo an oral ohartor wuh a moneyed hHghtar la Now York, who waa to hare mot — hare a fortnight tines. Ha dMaV-agd asm I am. In pawn to tba ship chandler, deapmale eaoagh tar anything." WW EDHcja ou you owir 'Otorsida «f a handred.” ■fcr 1 advanced that amount—whan aaa M sadf* Tba yoaap Ban redacted briefly HWh ewacthin j ao eapaplaply td> otle about thin proeaedlna.’' ba ob aerred wUtfaDy. Tra pat 0>e etraap eet kind of a bunch ftp polap to po through. Hay my bfQa. and ma aaa ha off tnelda aa hoar. That la—'* Ha rbachad with aa euelamattoa of dtaaay. chapfallen. ”1 say bare was trouble acarlap ap a craw at abort notice. 1 had two mto aapnped, bat last wash they pal tired dotap aotb lap (or aothiap aad left Be tat.” "Than that'* settled,' Alas salt. 1 hoow boata; Ml ba roar oraw -aad (he batter aetlptad to have nobody alas aboard.” Tbs sysa of Mr. Barcas olondod. here, mr bssdloap biead. wbat's rant Mtda pants, anyway? I dost Bind ptaytap (he fool op the htph seen, bat rU be as party to a ktdaeptap •fk—** nrw aa slop OB on I. * Atom Interrupt ed aa taeptrattoa. "Wars simply pM "Tea's sal” Sanaa apntaprapt ly. Up feea damn *Ood only knows why | honors roe. hot t do-sad hope* ■r head!” OtAPTPM XJL I j HA oognnlntad tor brtefly with bu Bat ato ooamad anablo to oeho bU onabrtaaoo or avaa to ovorwoma tto boortoim of tor iptrlta wton ttotr ♦wb, wttboot ilaarti snturs. not ttonb town at tto wtait tot Alan tad toarod. woo tto crw |tol paint ad dan««r—tf tto taftaonoa !«* tto tray at toarta was to bring '•■aatai span thorn tt woald to tar% to tto bash and torkaaaa af Uzta to aaitod water (root And to boro tam «oU Bate wordy u to talpod tto gilt from tha oar and to tba ^"tr1*** aC Lingered Watchfully ee Dec*. the 8aa«entere. Oat nothing hap pened; while Mr. Derma waa aa pood aa hie word Alan had barely eat toot on deck, following the girl, wbee the rang plank name aboard with a clatter, and the Oaarcnhna ewuaa away frost the wharf Unto the dletaaca waa too great tor am a flying leap Alan lingered watch folly 'on deck. At length, eatlafled that afl waa wall, ha retained to the cabin. “All right." ha nodded; "we're clear at that lot. apparently; nobody bat the TUi u*» mlagiUtrt ta-tr*1"" •nduced Darsun to lad bit eraw aleap Uiioagb tba 8rat afteruooa watch. Sis balls warn ringing urban, la drowsy ap preheatto* that something had gnat suddenly and radically wrong. Alan Ha wua 4b daab agata almost before ba nbbacfi tba alaaplaaaa tram hU eyas, smarting abruptly from tba half light at tba eabin to a danto of sun light that kited tba euy of day with ravaged pM, aran to ba paasad from coavtsttOB M aaoaitty to realieatloa of tamedlatMtad extraordinary peril. His brad glaaoa discovered tba wbaul lira art ad. tbs woman with baoh to him standing M tba taftall. Barcas—no where to ha team. Tba saooad con firmed bis birmlse that the Baarantnra had oomw p into tba wind, and now was yawls off wildly Into tba trough ot a ett* ! not heavy era A third showed hi ■; to hi* lineament, the Gloucester , fisherman — ovarhaaltd with each . Ms that morning and now, by rights. \ ail dawn tba northern bou ton—not two miles distant, and stand ing sgaareB for the • mailer vessel. Bewilder d, be darted to the glrl'e side, with a shoot, demanding to know whal was tba mattar. She termed to kb a face be hardly recog nised—bat tacit! ba dids t understand Tba tnevtthble Inference seamed a thing until lb kahde; hie brain faltarad whoa asked ta credit It. Only when he saw bad tearing frantically at tba painter, slrfrtng ta cant It off and with It the dory! towing a hundred feet or so astern, ^ad whan another wonder lag glance,had discovered the head and ebon)tors of Mr. Barcas rising over the elern of the dory at ba strove to lift hiu self out at the water—only than did Alan begin to appreciate what bad !appaned. Evan so. Jt waa with the feeling that all the woiM and himself as well had gone stark .taring mad, that ha salted Ihe girl an.. despite her struggles, tore her sway f oa the rail betora she had succeeded to nnknotttng the painter. "Rowel",0e cried etepldly. -Roes! What's th matter with you f Don't you see »iU you're doing?" D* Sane* "interned her countenance and aocenti "Can’t you ever say any thing but '•£wnsl Rqea! Rose!' It there no <pdt*T name that means any thing to Cast yon understand bow Intel-J is U la to me? I low* you no leg&eT* ahe—bettor than aba «l» WMpa 0« • m Me jL • eaaii**. (BTM or am aboard. Now road boat tarn la. Thle la evidently to ba year ataterootn, thla one to port, and root! bars m long nlgbt'a I leap to up far what voa’va gone through—dear wt" He drew nearer, dropping hfe Toioa tenderly. And of n rod den, wttb a Utile low cry, the girl ease Into Ua arm and clang paalonataly In him. "Ilut your- aba mannered, "tow •eed real aa much aa II What afcowt you 7” “Ob. so I don't" ha contended. Dr aldoe ID have pier ty of ttaw to reet up onea wn'rn fairly at eee. Barone and I etnnd wai> h and watch, of aoarae. TherVa nothin tor yon to do bet be completely ad your Bat—yoa munt lot me no." Krmm baildooed. bar bead thrown back. Ibe oaeanad to eager hie kfad rntbar Ikon to raopaato. than turned beatify away to her atatarooa—loan tog him atartag with wrnihm at bar of tori a* you—baabum tool Wtet la fcovt that than loraT Can't yoa aa ba eH*d la a vote* of rta “Bat—Goof Lord!—how •hoard? Wbaral Roaer roaH aot >od bar aaglty WOBU angrily ratonad. for that!” yw aiaaaV Illumination a Minting Saab. "Do you whom I brought tbara In tha botal, for bar, daoatrad "Why bar*— rfy at tbtnk a man >w tba tnH I Uma Impo* Noodymladed rtxm b rotrr blushing bride-to-be?" ■ Alan shook a kaiplees head The tblcs defied reasonable explanation. Ba made a feeble atanar at It with out moob satisfaction ait her to hlm eelf or to tba outraged Huns. “No—it1* all a damnable mistake! BWa bar tiller—I naan, the rl«ht gtri'a alatar—aad her preelae doable— fooled me—not qmlta right la the bead. Pm afraid.' “Too may wall ba afraid, you poor ttatl" Ur. Barena mapped. “tryoa know what aha did? Threw me over brardl Taot! Game on deck a while »#o. awaal aa paaebaa—and all of a suddun whip# out a gun aa hi* aa a cannon, point* it at my head and or darn me to luff Into tbe wind. Before 1 coeld make earn I wasn't dream Inc. •ba bad brad twice—in tba air—a at* nal to that hlaaeed flabarmaa aeterm tbara—at least, tbay answered with two toot* of a power whietle and ehaogsd courea to run up to u*. lunj bow aba's gained already!' “Bat bow did aba happen to throw you orerboard ?' ‘Happen nothin*!' Kerens snapped. retting to bis fast. “She did It a perpoee—tow at ma bka a wildest, aad before J knew whet was up—I was stemmed backwards osar tbs rail.' "I oan't tall yoa bow oorry I am* Alan roe pended grossly 'There* more to tall—but one thin* to ba dons llrst.* 'And that?” Hr. Harcu* Inquired auspiciously. *Tu get rid of tba lady,* Alan an ■oeocad firmly. “Haka that flsbar man a present of tba woman tn tba case. Toe dost mind parting with tba dory la a good cause—If I pay for itr I-ILM u for OCX King.- Banos grumbled “Cboap at the prloe!' He took Alan's watching hint with a eardonlo eye aa he drew the tender In under the leeward quarter, made It Cast, aad reopened tha com paaloaway. Aa the girl earns on dech with oat other Invitation, la a (alien rag* that only htightened her wonderful level Inane. Alan acted that har drat look waa for Ua, of an tempered me Ugnlty; her second, for Baraua, with a carting lip; her third, astern, with a gills is ac of gaflafsatlon as aha ra» osalaad how well the fisherman had drawn up on tha fiaavsntnre. "Friends of yours, I Infer T* Alan tnqwl/ed ttvlfly. Judith nodded. “Thao It would save OS noma trouble —rmuaalf tncJudad—tf youll ba good ttioagh to stop lute tha dory without a struggle." Without a word. Judith stepped to tha ran aad, aa Barons luffed, swung herself overside Into tha dory. Immediately Alan oaat off, aad aa tha lit Us boat sheered off.' Baraua wltt a sigh of relief, braaght tha Sea venture ones mom bank upon bar oooiaa. For same few minutes there waa el leccs between (ha two man. while tha leader dropped swiftly sal era. ths woman plying a brink pair of oars. nan. suddenly elevation his nos a, Banos sniffed audibly. "Hera." he ■•Id sharply, "relieve ms for a m In ti*- will yoeT 1 want to go forward and have a look at that motor." In tha time that ha remained invis ible between decks the fisherman luffed, picked up the dory sad tu occupant, and oame round again In opes chase of tha Sceventuro. Whan Baraua reappeared It waa wltt a grave fees. "Tha deiH and the deep She," ha ob served obscurely, coming aft, “from an thtir works, good Lord deliver us!" “What's the trouble oowr “Nothing much—only your playful Utile friend has bean up to another of har light hearted tricks. ... If you should happen to want a amoks or anything to eat when you go below, Juat find a mirror and kiss yourself good-by before striking tha match. Tha drain-cocks of both fuel tanks have been opened, and (bare are up wards of a hundred and fifty gallona of highly explosive gasoline slashing around In the bilge!" CHAPTKM XIII. ■ N 9 Quarter. Taa, jaa," aald Mr Barcoa Indol ently. breaking a Ion* allanca 'Vary later** ting. Vary Interaatlng. Indeed r»a aaMnm Hntabed to a non antar talnlag llfa-blatory, my poor young rrtend. But I tall yoa candidly, aa man to man. I don't bellara one word of It It* all d-o fooUahnaaa! Hla to to* look an a plalntlra ar rant •'Particularly thlal- ba expo*, tadated, and warad aa Indignant band. oorupaaaUg thatr plight. Tba rant of your adranturaa arc maaimabla aaoogb," ba aald. they woo my oradnltty—and rm anally* of MloaoaH But thla last chapter la lm poaalhla And tbat'a Aat ft soolda t hapym—and baa. And thara, la a aaapaar of apaobkig. wo arat" Again at tba amotera hortaon a long, low-tying atrip af aaud duaaa raated Kb* a boy af pvpla cloud batwdan tba orlmaao afterglow of oaoaat la tba aky and tho aataagulaad aaa that mty rerad tt. Tha wted had goaa down with tba oaa. tearing tba Kaorontera baealmad —bar motor lone afnoa Inart for waat af fate—to then! water a mite or w at (ba daaotatt and barren aaoat that ttenma. oat of kb abooadlag know I adpa^af thoaa water*, named Naaaat atm aaathar mite forthar off abora tba aooaUad Qtoaaaeter daharmaa roda. without motion, woteru aa atlll aod gteaoy Three** 1*4 (teaming. - *■» tt m* attll am dark ah* lowered a email boat that theretofore had iwnag la davits. A ttttl* later a (Slat hum mla< sole* drifted aaroaa the tide. "Power tender,* the owner of the Bravaotera Interpreted. "Coming te oau. I presume. Boctobl* lot. Whet I sent make oat la why they-I to think it aeoesanry to taw oar dory back. Dnesay oouedeoce, maybe— whatr* He lowered tba Miooulare and glanced Inquiringly at hie employer, who grunted htn *i«g«ei oe i more. I "Don't taka It so bard, old top," Bor en* advised with a change of note from Irony to sympathy. Then he roes and dived down the oompanlomway, presently to reappear with a mega phone and a doable barreled ebotgen. "No cuttlng-out parties in this out fit." ha explained, grinning amiably. "Nun* of that old a tuff, revlaed to eott your Infatuated female friend—once aboard the logger and the men to t mine!" 8tatkralng himself at the leeward rail, where hi* figure would a bow fc* •harp atlbonatte agalnat the glowing ■unaet *ky, be brand lehad the shot gnn nl arm'* length above hie hand, and bellowed atertoroaaly through the megaphone: 'Keep off! Keep off! This mean* yoa! Coma within gunabot and IH Mow your fool head* off!" I Patting eel do the megaphone, he eat down again. "Not that I’d dara fire thto Mnnderboaa." be confided, "with Flame* I lehed Owt All Over tha tbia real of gaaoHae; bat hut tor moral effect. Pbew-wl rd give a dol lar for a breath at eiaea air; I've 1d balad ao much gaa Id tha laat tew hour* 4*m dry nlaaaad dawn to mr •tttf old toaal- ^ -„ Oalalhg ao raaponee from AJu, ha ohaarrad ertttoallj: -Chatty UtUa am toxnar. year ara,- aad nan tend tha bteeoolara. For thirty miautae nothing hay panad. other thaa that tha aoaad of the Bahamas'i launch wua milled. It reatad movalaM la tha water*, two fliuraa mynterloouly beay La the ooek plt. tha Baaveatara'a dory traUtag be hind It oa a long painter. Gradually thaae Octal* became blurred, aad ware blotted out by tha oloalag ahadowm. Tha afterglow In the weat grew oool aad fatal. The cttmaon vat era darkened, to maava, to violet, to a tnnatnoant green, to blackneaa. Far up tha ooart two white eyee. peering over tba borinoe. •lured ataadfaaUy through the dark. "Chatham tight*,’ Bareua «»ia they »erc. Abruptly ha dropped tha glamaa aad lamped up. -Hear that)- ha ariad. Now tha hutnmlag of tha motor was again audible aad growing loader with every loaUat; and Alan, getting to hte faat In tan. Interned with tha motto meut of Bareua, could Juet make oat It eome dlateooa a dark ahadow be neath the dim. rpluttertng gUmmar of light, that moved iwlftly and —.-nifllr toward tba Baavaatun. ~Wkat tha dam I” ha --i I pwaalad. "Too nttsred a tsoathful what re« Mid d«rin- Barons 1—manj grMctag Ua arm and harrying him to tho landward sldn of tha mil "Qatek—ktoh off year ahnta gat aat for a tnllo4ong awlml DaoUl work. aU right!" ha pan tad, hastily dtraa* log blmssif of ahoas and oalar gar manta. "I oooldat i— ■*■ oat what thay wara uy to till I aw than lash tha whaaL light tha toss. start tha motor, and taka to tha dory. TVfn madn oa -- of that Ho sprang apoa tha rati. j*«g hlmaaU with a stay. "Raadyf" ha aakad. -Look aharpl B/ of anowar. Aka fomad hlmi tha two had dhrad aa ooa, aatarkg tha Wktar with a aingls aptaah. and —» lag to tho rartaoa a good taa yards from tha Baaroatara. for tho asst savors! saooada thay wara —■ frmstloally, sad aot aatU thrao haa drad fast or from tha Ttotat sad gad, uahad at* ah irrar tha I WATCH THIS COLUkl MISSIONARY ITEMS U America Akat There Are 14,. TM#M fem Over Tern Yeeifi °f Age Net la Any Church. Arm the Mathers and Hama Mtaasam Workers Data! Their DstyT Kangnrmtioa of Collegia. Methodist* Bibetrao Praia, BraxiL On September 6, 18M, the Wo man's Board ef Foreign Mtaaioni of the Method iat Episcopal Church, South, opened a school In Ribeirmo, Prate, Brasil. On the fifteenth an niversary of that day, September 6, 181t, the near building for tbs Col legio UethodUta was Inaugurated. This i* a most Important step in the history of the development of the woman’s work in Rrsiil. The mis sionaries have a very large hold in this particular place I rare use of the splendid work that was dons soma years ago during an epidemic of yel low fever. They proved their lore and sympathy by staying to nurse the sick. Those who have bad a share in this new building—and all our missionary women have had— should pray that a larger work Will be done because of It—The M melon ary Bulletin, LONG BRANCH SCHOOL NEWS. Congressman Godwn recently tent ua a large wall map of tha United States and eight doten farm bulla tins. Ths map helps ua so much In our efforts to tsach geography and history, end our agriculture elate is interested in the study of tha farm bulletins. Wa thank Mr. Godwin for the map aod bulletins sent us this year and we appreciate him as a true and noble representative of our great Stats Whan you rsadari of our news wish to know how to care for a horse and make him look handsome wa ad viee you to consult Carl Tart. Wa belie re that Oarl la on tha Job whan it cornea to feeding and caring for a bores At any rata ha has a hand some horse that was. only a few months ago, not handsome. Oarl is evidently a good boy at home. Ha it a good pupil and that ti proof that ha is good at home. Wa grre him ex cell eat on Ida general average peg cant aod one hundred an deportment. Look for our monthly honor roll elsewhere In this lease mat notice tha asm at of oar punctual pupils. Ours is a rural district school har ing an enrollment of N pupils frost a poodle 1M and there eight at tha 10* in school elsewhere Oar the facta that wa art in', the rural district aod that tha washer has beau vary inclement our people bailers ta their school aa tha attendance shows. Tha gentleman of tha committee expect to have their school Incorpo rate at an early data. —SAXON - • ON HONOK Thorn ia something about tba proposition of Honor that g*ta into •T«ry hcart^-no matter bow calloua od tba boart may ba; no matter bow •eared by crime and desperation— Honor still smoulders and can light the way to the moat abject and wretched. Wbeo Bin Sikes by his scowling re and menacing countenance showed Nancy that be bad murder .n hia heart she appealed to tatm and said: "Bill, I have been true to you—upon my guilty aoul I have.** She aaw remotely what honor meant —and asked for reward. Sikea of course moat sinks her down—hia honor waa not appealed to—hia mer cy was sought, and ha had nono And man who study the penal sys tem are beginning to ascertain what they should, have always known, that because a man ia convicted of crime ho la not always at heart a criminal. He has simply erred. He may still have hoe or and ha stay still have pride. But be will have neither if we treat him like a chained beast la treated, and therefore those who have watched and studied the differ ent phases of the convict’s life have concluded that Honor ia a great in set In the prison and can be used s i vantageoualy for the state and for tba prisoner. ium inoupnta are apaln so t peri od by an unwoctiMnl that at Oom ■tock. New York, the prison author., tiei have all hundred prisonera who cultivate a farm at about a thousand acres. Tha puarda ara unarmed. Tha convict! are jealous af tha hen or and reputation of tha ramp and inaubordlnation la pit tolerated by than. Only taro oat of a thousand inmates have ever ran away. Man toava tha farm whan thair wire makes It aaeaasary far than to do aa. There ara ban pamea and other r muaeenenta. Moat af thaaa man will tear# the camp converted into pr< ucare and lodnatrloua man. And tha hope la that altlmati’r tha armed puard win po; that eon vlcta will ha treated as Individual! and aot aa a dare Tha man who •arms reward should ho rewarded— no matter where ha la. Tha Chrta tlaa rellpioa «+ree up hope to atoms for ein and be rewarded. Tha taws of mas deep this—4f pan enoa err and became • eonviet in a realm, •trip ad ault.—Evarpthinp. Dr. t. B. Sorias, af fnr Oaks, was la trwa paremdap^^^^p^
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