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Cd or tlie crew Is now on the Island, and we know what that signifies." "Is there no chance of bribing these people into friendliness or at least Into ? tein|Himry truce?" "It is hard to decide. Tollemache and Suarez are best able to form an opinion. What do you say, Tolle mache?" "Not a bit of use. They are insatla ble. The more you give the more they want. The only wa.M to deal with those rotters is to stir them up with a Catling or a twelve i>ouuder." Suarez when appealed to shook his head. "You might as well try to fondle a hungry puma. I am the only man they have ever spared, and they spared me ?olely because they thought I gave them power over their enemies. If you had a caunou you might drive them off. As it is, we shall be com pelled to fight for our lives. They are brave enough In their own way." The experience of the miner from Argentina was not to be gainsaid. Courtenay glanced up at Elsie. If aught were needed to complete the contrast between civilization and sav agery it was given by the comparison which the girl offered to the women in the canoe. The hot sun and the ab sence of wind had changed the tem- ' perature from winter to summer. Aft er breakfast Elsie had donned a mus lin dress and a broad brimmed straw | hat. Exposure to the weather had bronzed her skin to a delightful tint. Her nut brown hair framed a sweetly pretty face, and her clear blue eyes Els it seized the chance of mapehotting the party. and red lips, slightly parted, smiled bewitchingly at the men beneath. The camera In her hands added a holiday aspect to her appearance, an aspect which was unutterably disquieting in Its relation to the muttered forebod ings she had broken in on. "I find the get-up of our visitors dis tinctly humorous," he said, "and I hope they are a bit scared of us. We would prefer their room to their com pany." "I thought that Senor Suarez would hail them, as he can speak their lan guage. Perhaps he does not wish them to know he is on board?" Now, Elsie had heard the man's im passioned appeal when the Indians were first sighted, so Courtenay fell, that she, too, was acting. A new direction was given to Elsie's thoughts by the somewhat scowling aspect of Christobal's face. He was looking at Courtenay in a manner which betokened certain displeasure. The Spaniard's cultivated cynicism was subjugated by a more powerful sentiment. It seemed to Elsie that he envied Courtenay h;s youth and high ?pirits. Elsie dared not meet Courteuay's eyes. A flood of understanding had suddenly poured its miraculous waters over her. Incidents unimportant in themselves, utterances which seemed to have no veiled Intent at the time, rushed in upon her with overwhelming conviction. The middle aged physician suspected her of flirting with Courte nay and disapproved of it as strongly as she herself had condemned Isobel's admitted efforts in the same direction. The proceedings of the Indians put a stop to any further conversation. The canoe had drifted closer to the ship. It was about eighty yards distant when the Indian who was on his feet sud denly whirled a sling and sent a stone crashing through the window of the music room. The heavy missile, which when picked up was found to weigh nearly half a pound, just missed Tolle mache. The captain raised a double barreled fowling piece, the only gun on Ixiard, and fired point blank at the savages. But the women were paddling away vigorously, and the shot splashed in the water on all sides of the canoe, though a howl and a series of violent c -.tortious showed that one at least cf the |>ellets had stung the wizened Indian whom Suarei lielieved to be a newcomer. There was no second shot?cartridges were too precious to be wasted at an impossible range?but the undeniable fact remained that the Indians meant to be aggressive. For a little time no one spoke. They heard the echoes of ?lie gunshot faintly thrown back by j the nearest wall of rock. The regular plash of the paddles as th? canoe sped shoreward was distinctly audible. They watched th? tiny craft until It vanish ed round the wooded [mint which con cealed Otter creek. The mutiied clang of a hammer broke the silence which h.-i 1 fallen ou the watchers from the ship. \Yn!l e.' Lad ?lipped back to his U iiMvl i tgiae . Hail he not vowed U): t'ae m . s^lve pistons should ag. in t'ani t f ilth tbolr willing uruis ou or about New Year's day? He liail forgotten the cannibals aud their threats ere lie was at the fo>it of the engine room ladder, t'ourte nay a an 'Itfck-.nacue Joined him; Cluis-; tobai went to the salon to vi it his' patients; Elsie was left with Mr. Boyle, who forthwith fell into a doze, lie.ng worn out by the fresh air and tl?e ex citement. Joey, having followed Oourtenay to the one doorway in t'.ie ship which he could not enter, trotted back to ttnd Elsie. She greeted liiui with enthu siasm. "Hail, friend," she raid. "You at least are l.ot jealous if 1 speak to your m:>ter, wherein you show your ex ceeding wisdom. Now, since you and I ure persons of leisure, tell me. Joey, what we shall do to make ourselves useful." The dog was accustomed to being spoken to. lie awaited developments. "It seems to me. Joey," she contin ued. "that Gugllelmo Frascuelo Is the one person on board who claims our attention. There is a mystery to lie solved. Hound up in it are my poor Isiobel, that beaut Yentanu and :: drunken coal trimmer?an old us?;r.", me'it to rul) shoulders, don't yon think?" Joey still reserved his opinion. When the girl went to the forecastle by climb ing down ihe sailors' ladder to the low er deck he thought she was making a mistake, but she held her arms for his spring, and all was well. She had not previously visited the quarters set apart for the crew. Puzzled by the large nuuilier of small cabins with names of subordinate officers painted on them, she paused and cried loudly: "Are you there, Frascuelo? May I speak to yon'/" An cxc!;; niatiou of surprise, u some what forcible exclamation. too, answer ed her from an inner berth. Fras cuelo had heard from the Chilean who brought his meals that there was an Englishwoman on board, but he did not know that she spoke Spanish flu ently. Frascuelo was reclining on a lower bunk. His Injured leu was well 011 the way toward recovery, but the wound and Its resultant confinement hail chastened him. He had lost the brig andish swagger which was his mo: cherit-ued aecet. Af.er acknowledging inquiries as to his progress he showed such eagerness for news that Elsie told him briefly what had caused the latest uproar She cheered him. too, with the an nouncement made by the engineer and then ied him to the topic on which she sought information. "In some ways I regard you as most unfortunate," she said. "I have been told -you are here by accident; that yor never meant to take the voyage at all. Is that true?" Frascuelo, del I nh ted to have secured a sympathetic listener, poured forth his sorrows volubly. He bore no 111 will against the captain, he said. He knew it was wrong to draw a knife on the chief officer, as his tale was 1111 unlikely one. and he ought to have trusted to a more orlerly recital of the facts to obtain credence. "But I was that mad. senorita, I just saw red, and the drink was yet surg ing up in me. 1 felt I must fight some body, hatever the consequences." "Can you tell me why any one had such a grievance against you that you should be thrown into the hold ami nearly killed? That was a strange thing to do. especially as you came ubo..rd too late for your work." "Ah, that is the point, senorita. You see. we trimmers work in' gangs, and the man who flung me through the hatch was the man who had taken ni; place. I see no reason to doubt that it was he who made me drunk the previ ous evening, and I know who did that." v? nar was nis name?" "Jose Anacleto?'Joee the Winebag' we call hiin ou the plaza. I ought to have Dwelled mischief when Jose paid. Never before had I seen him do such a thing. And a good liquor too. Dlos. It must have cost him dollars." "What object had he in coming on tKiard instead of you?" "Ah. there you lieat me. Benorita. I have twisted my poor brain with think ing of that. We only earned a dollar a head, and bunkering a ship from a fiat i>' hard work while It lasts, where as one would expect Jose to ride twen ty miles (he other way to escape such a task. But he was in the plot, and he shall tell me why or"? By force of habit Frascuelo put his right hand to his belt, but his sheath knife had lieeu taken from him. He ?milled sheepishly, yet his black eyes twinkled. 'Tlot! Why do you speak of a plot?" ashed the girl, hoping that the word betokened some more promising clew than she could discern thus far. "Why did the furnace* blow up? Tell me that and I can answer you. (Jood. honest coal Isn't made of gun powder. Jose or some one beMnd lilm meant to sink the ship, and a* I might have proved awkward they wen: willing that I should go down with her. Mr v lie I s'ir.ll meet Jose If we | get out of t':i j rrt trap. Then we shall , have a little talk." Tiesplte the man's shrewd guess as to the cause of the accident in the ?tokeh?>ld Lisle was at a loss to con nect the freak of some Valparaiso loaf-1 er with the deep lail ac'ierne which contemplated the dotrnc'.i ., of t'.ie iZonsns. She hnd followed t'le rfl'eus slon in the ehnrt room with fu'l nv!1"* ciati n of its aljpilfcnnce. V-'" 'de as the ship and rrrgo were, th""" ".as far mere a* stake in t'ie . ' ef <h? Iofs on the copner enr'e of fie trorld. T'.ie most i, ]i; r < . porting flru in CUilv woull ; r .".!cal!| ? >>? ruined, while the I'aris "ring." of which she had read In the newspaper*, I would have matters its own way. | Financial Itttreiti of such magnitude j would hardly lie bouud up with the carousals and quarrels of I'ras. u?lo and "Jose the Winebag." Yet? "Have you ever heard of Senor l'e dro Ventaua," she asked suddenly. "Has he to do with minesV" luqulred thy Chilean tentatively. "Yes." "1 know him liy sight, seuorlta." "Would he be acquainted with this man Anacleto. do you thinkY" "Can't gay. Jose would know any body whom he could touch for a few ! pesetas." She left him, promising to visit him ' dally in the future. As she walked back toward the bridge companion | she met l>r. Chrlstobal. His tit of 111 ; humor had gone. He was all smiles,! but Elsie, having extracted such lu-1 formation as Krascuelo possessed, was beut 011 adding to her store of knowl- j edge. Incidentally she meant to widen the doctor's views. "Why have you taken to lecturing me?" she asked, with a simple direct-; ness which Chrlstobal was not slow to prolit by. "Because, though old enough to be your father, I have not yet reached years of discretion." "You mean. I suppose, that if every one attended to one's own affairs it would be a less spiteful world? I am Inclined to agree with you. I'nhappl ly life is largely made up of these minor evils. Yet I should have thought that the desperate conditions uider which we exist at this hour mi;: t pro tect me from uncharitableness." "You are pleased to be severe." "No; it is the last privilege of dan ger that shams should vanish. Yet we plumb the depths of ali> :r iity when we contest the right of an, wo man, even a young and unmarrle ' e, to appreciate all that a brave 11: :i ..as done and is doing to save her lire." Elsie was speaking without at. She might have been reasoning ;e disputed point in ethics. The : ^it lard was obviously thrown o.. uls guard. "You seem to demand an ev na tion," he said, with some v> . h. "Well, you shall have It. I am uot a man to flinch from the disagreeable. I admit a sort of impression, I mi-l't al most describe it as a convictlo.i, that Captain Courteuay's manner toward you betokens a growing admiration." "This is the wildest folly," cried Elsie in bewilderment. "I?I cannot imagine what put such a notion into your head." "Let me at least lay claim to a spe cies of aitfuism," he replied. "I can 6ee fifty excellent reasons why our young and good looking commander should lie drawn to you, nor can I urge one against it." "But he is already engaged to an other woman, so my one reason Is worth more than all your fifty." "Ah, can that really be so?" The tense eagerness In his voice might have warned her were it not that she was shocked by the bitterness which welled up in her heart. She was amazed by this introspective glimpse. It alarmed her. She must convince herself at all costs that she had spoken truly. Although the evidence she tendered was of dubious value, she strove to ad vance her argument further. "1 have prized our friendship great ly, Tir. Christobal," she said, speaking with a calm deliberateness that rang hollow In her own ears, "so greatly that I am compelled to utter this pro test. Now, to end a distasteful con trovers?y let me tell you what I know to be true. When the ship was strand ed and we ail thought our only chance of safety was to take to the boats, by a fluke, the accident of the moment, 1 was left alone in the captain's cabin. The sea was breaking in througli the doorway, and it brought an odd relief to my overburdened mind when I en deavored to rescue the contents of u locker which for some reason had been scattered on the floor previously. Among them I found sumo letters. I think you will believe me when I say that I would not consciously read an other i>erson's private correspondence. Just then I was hardly responsible for my actions, and I did happen to see and grasp the meaning of a passage in a letter from Captain Oourtenay'H sis ter which alluded to hie atilunced wife. It is not such a tragic admission. Is It? I would scarce have given it an other thought were It not for your manner this morning and your words last night. I paid no heed at the time to the innuendo that I had come on deck to find him?to waylay him, as I have heard men say when speaking of # type of woman I despise. So I re solved to straighten out a stupid little tangle. It would be ridiculous In our present state of suspended animation to let such a slight thing mar our friendship." Elsie was indulging in that most de lusive thing, self persuasion. It was not surprising, therefore, that she failed to note the unmixed satisfaction with which ('hrlstobal listened. "Am I forgiven, then?" he asked, with a new tenderness In his voice. i "Oh, yes; let us laugh at It." "But"? "Please let us talk of something) more useful. I have a little plan, and you might ask the captain if he ap proves of it. We have plenty of strong canvas. What do you say if I set to work and cover in the promenade ilei'k fore und aft as well as lioth skies? Then If the Indians try to seize the; iblp tliey would not be al>|i> to g:'ln a' lodgment at so m.iny simul taneously. It would simplify the de fense, so to speak." "Admirable! I a:n sure Cotirtenny will agree. Indeed. I am ashamed we superior lu.iles failed to lilt 0:1 t ie 1 Idea earlier. Before I go let tue l>e( certain that my forgiveness Is com plete." "Shall we quarrel about a degree of blessedness? I assure you J like you more thau ever. Wlien all Is said ami done. you thought 1 was flinging my self at our excellent captain's head, so you tried to spare me the pangs of un requited love." The words hurt, but she did not tllneh. 4'Uristohal, anxious to deceive himself, was radiant. "Your charity u?'s too far." he cried. "That was not the exact reason. No, uiy dear Miss Maxwell; 1 U'giu to ex ercise a newborn discretion. 1 shall I not elucidate that cryptic remark un til after New Year's day. ltut I don't mind telling you why I have hit on a definite date. If all goes well with us ?and we have had so many escapes that I'r?\ Ideuce may well send us a few more?the Kansas should steam out of our little bay of Good Hope about that period. Then I shall remind you of our discussion and keep my promise." With that he left her. After a gasp or two of surprise, for Elsie could read only one meaning into his words, she hurried up the bridge companion to arouse Mr. Boyle and ask what he would like for luncheon. (To Be Continued.) RECEIVED SALE OF REAL ES TATE. By virtue of authority contained In an order of the Superior Court of Johnston Cuonty, signed by hia hon or, Judge C. C. Lyon at May term, 1H09, I, A. M. Noble, receiver of The Holt Cotton Company will sell at public auction for cash at uie court house door in Smithfleld on Saturday, July 10, at 12 o'clock, the following real estate of The Holt Cotton Company. One lot of land lying in the town of Smithfield, N. 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