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Show uni Mfcl ill mmmmmmm ytJvKwr.r I I 1 f i J mm rih n i. hi II', II L1 L II . I VI f II ,i ii n 1,1 IVM I I I ' mi in ii 1 i I i j . tJA TS nil in. 'L I 'i ii 111 I I ri.n ins. II l I I I I ii . &n7i tot I i ii i rnv !, i A I I I vr&ix ing learned that tmimmmmmmmmmmmmmamma. ho wua under sua plclon and would soon bo arrested. .It was he, I am mre, who entrapped you Into taking a photograph of the forts. You are under suspicion and would have been in terrible danger, had you gone with him. You will sail, now, on another ship and will be safe." "He will be in danger!" said Hardy, mystified. "What sort of danger?" "Did I say that he would bo In danCHAPTER IV. ger?" asked Alsome, sweetly. "No, I said that you would have been In One Fond Kiss. danger. We have taken the plans of They all took dinner together. Also. the forts away from him, but he still me, Mr. Sano, Neville and Hardy, at has them In his head and and the Aomorl restaurant. Neville ob- perhaps you have, but I do not think jected strenuously to this so a man who could speak so beautifully of a woman." "They aren't unite human "Hut why aro you doing all this for ' know," he Buld. "Knirllshmn thii.u me?" asked Hardy. tht-lose caste when "Why? Because I am a woman, I they dine whh coolies, and so they don't do it, don't suppose. Because you have satd there you know." la moonlight In my cheeks, that my "Well, we Bhan't lose any caste by lips are ripe cherries, that I an in nil it dining with this little woman." re- Lof gold dust, that I am a queen of plied Hardy, warmly, "any more than fairy-land- . I am known as 'the Fox.' if we were to dine with the queen of but I have a woman's silly heart and cannot resist flattery." There was fairyland. Personally. I Khali honored to sit at the same table with something elfin-likIn her beauty as so much grace and beauty. We shan't she stood there with her face raised need a bouquet with her there. Real- to his In the moonlight. "Old Sano ly. I consider her about as rare and suys my head is turned." Bhe sighed, exquisite a feminine creation as I "but It is easy to wheedle him." have ever seen, and I shall think you "Sano? He Is not your father, mean to bo disagreeable, if you do then?" not show more respect for my feel"No, he Is my superior In the secret ings In the matter." service. And now good by; you may "Oh, all right!" growled Neville; kiss me once, If you really meant but he could not help adding: "Most what you said. It will be the only fellows feel as you do when they first kiss of my life, as It is not the cuscome to this bally country " tom of my country." She raised her lips to him and he They all started up the steps together, but Neville was detained. He stooped and kissed her. The lips had refused hotly to take off his were- - dewy and very sweet, and he was conscious of some subtle nerfumn shoes. "But. sir. It Is the custom of the as if she herself were some exquisite nower. country," explained Masatsura, "Cood-by,- " she whispered, "and "Better take 'em off, old man." pro think sometimes of the little Lilac tested Hardy, who was trying to be Blossom!" She turned and was gone, and he civil, but had begun to weary of his companion. "They may think it posl stepped into the boat waiting to take tively Indecent to go Into a dining him out to the ship. room with shoes on." After some opposition, on the CHAPTER V. ground that it made him feel like a And Opened the Door. fool to go about in his stocking feet, At the Mercy of the Waves. p r nr r n r ji n rutxnru' Neville removed his shoes and started The crew of the Shlkoku Maru consisted of five persons; the captain, the opened port hole. A sudden fear that helpless when his standing-grounup the stairs with them in his hand Is "Better bring your shoes, too," he engineer and three si.Ilors. They were the ship would founder and that he tilted. explained to Hardy. "They'll- - prob- the first filthy, unkempt Japanese that would be drowned, coooed tin there In There was at last a more violent ably steal tbem if you leave them Hardy had seen. One of them, a the cabin, seized him and lie leaped, upheaval than any before. The shit shock-headedown there." It was plunged and settled, leaving the cab-Iboy, who seemed to clambering, for the port-holThey all squatted about a low have brought to sea with hlui all the not far above him, but ere he could floor nearly level. Hardy sprang table, whose legs were not over a foot smells of Chinatown, came and stood reach It, It was below him and he was to his feet. high, and waited for dinner. Their by the American's side and gazed Into thrown toward it, receiving a second "She has either broken her back." room, which had been enlarged to suit his face with Insatiable, devouring waterspout full in the face, drenching be cried, "or she has gone over th to him the skin. he was But as the size of the party by simply sliding curiosity. was active reef and Hardy watching the In settled the shallows!" as a monkey and succeeded In thrusttogether a partition, looked out on a twinkling lights of the town and thinkShe listed to port and rocked gently court. Diners in other rooms on the ing of Alsome, with whom he had ing an arm through the opening. He opposite side of the court could be been thrown so brief a time, yet who hung on with a will, and as his sld) from side to side, rendering It Imposseen, also squatting about tables. In had played such a large part in his of the vessel hove into the air again, sible for him to stand without holding And now the water, less than Ave minutes Hardy had be- life and left such an Indelible Impres- Blammed the window to and gave a to something. few frantic whirls to the screw, suf- which had been pouring Into the tor come most uncomfortable, but Alsome sion on his memory. The lights grew fewer, fading In the ficient to make It catch and form a ward part of the hold, came seething and her father sat there on their toes solid object to which he could hold. from beneath and around the doot as easily as if they were reclining on distance one by one. "It might be as well," mused Hardy, He secured the window and rolled to and through the cracks of the particouches. They ordered of the pretty girl who came to serve them, and "to make myself as agreeable as pos- the floor, where he rested on hands tion. Every time the ship listed to. waited perhaps 15 minutes, when Ne- sible to thege Jans. I am alone with and knees, with his limbs SDread out starboard, It reached a tiny knot-holville exclaimed: "Where are my them In the middle of the sea, and I as widely as possible to keep himself and spouted for several feet In a . shoes?" in such a tone that Alsome heard rumors In Yokohama that, de- from rolling about, while he took hissing stream-"She has settled on the bottom looked up Inquiringly, and her father spite their exquisite politeness, they stock of the situation. Enough water evidently asked Masatsura what the hate all Caucasians. Perhaps Also- had come In to drench him thorough- muttered. Hardy; "she will hold now, me but no, Bhe certainly was sincere. ly and to wet his blankets and bag she will hold! .The water can't pos trouble was. "The waiter took them out to have I wonder where Neville Is now?" The gage, but not sufficient to flood the sibly rise high enough to drown me. I will climb on the table, on the dithem blacked," explained the guide. American felt in his hip pocket and floor of the hold. He crawled to the door and tried to van." "She will either bring them back or was comforted by the cold touch of else leave them down there with the his revolver handle. The reflection open It, but to his surprise found it It rose to his ankles, to his knees that he was one of the most famous locked. He pounded on It and shouted, and he got upon others." the table, and sat It was necessary to hurry through amateur shots In America gave him a but to no avail. This discovery there holding to the edges. The wind aroused In him again the sense of began to subside dinner somewhat, for the Teijo Maru distinct feeling of security. and he The lights were all gone now. That danger, and the face of Alsome, asxhe could hear the somewhat, sailed at three. ghostly, unearthly Neville spoke about his shoes two one yonder, at which he had been had seen It In his dream In the train, noises made by the wreck Itself; or three times, insistently, and they gazing so long and which did not fade, took shape before the eyes of his moanlngs and groanlngs, creaklngs, was a was star, he were brought back to him In a few quite Bure. He memory. Seizing the knob of the knocklngs, mutterlngs, whisperings, turned and walked forward to where door, he threw his entire weight .uc moments. b aim Buciuiuis 01 Hie waicl was the inof nn with cantain talklne for it several against times, wtth the When the two foreigners left as It rushed In and out with the the boat. Hardy made a pretty parting the sailors, and Indicated, by laying tention of breaking It In, but, to his rhythmical listing of the ship. on his open palm, that he surprise, It offered unexpected resistspeech to Alsome, which Masatsura his cheek He climbed to the port hole, opened was sleepy and would like to go to ance. As he stood thus, still holding translated. It and looked out. The early sun was to the knob and wondering why he At the wharf he was arrested again. bed. The captain, with sudden gleaming redly on a sullen heaving and had been exaeirerated was nianv made a prisoner, there He was thoroughly disgusted and sea. The waves were whitening over threatened to make trouble, but, to gestures of politeness, led him to a a horrible grinding, grating sound; the a long reef. Perhaps, if he could pronnd hatch door. the shuddered as to was somewhat opened Hardy ship though wounded tell the truth, his rage cure in the shape of a stick something mollified by the fact that he might taw a ladder and as much of the dark, the death, and the stem rose high in or polo that he could out of the as a hold lantern from the and air remained roomy would thus. he that hanging Hardy window, with his shirtjoke see Alsome again, and to it he tied iieam couia illuminate, knew this from the fact that he was ine not be compiled to pass a week or so looked about, and. to his surprise, diswent down ladder now the and on almost the Hardy lying door, against covered that the door was longer in the Kngiisinuan's company. followed. partly open. which, a moment ago, he had been He Nevertheless, he said to him on partjumped down and waded to it, took The down the aclantern The I captain shall on. leaning. continued, grinding this thing keeps ing: "If and opened the door. The cabin Into companied by bumps and slldlngs, thinking for the moment that the Japbegin to share your opinion of the which he led the way was nearly semi- giving him very much the same sen- anese had come to relensn him 11b Japanese. circular In shape, as It was bounded sation that he had once experienced pushed the door open and gazed Into Hardy was clapped into a room a partition across the hull and the In a building that was being shaken the dim hold, where mattresses and overlooking the sea, from the window by walls of the ship's stern. A cushioned by an earthquake. The waves, over planks from the berths were floating of which ho could see the Teljo Maru extended in a semi-circldivan around which she had but now been leaping about in rather dangerous confusion. steaming out Into the purple distance. the rear He gained the ladder, mounted and was a carpet on agnlnst her with terrific and angry end, there n elaborate and dainty dinner was stood In and upon the deck; there was no floor the furniture the of form violence. brought to him in the evening, and a table over which was dinsign of a living soul. Evidently the a God!" swung "we have was escorted he "My Hardy, gasped rHght that ten about rack, and a couple of chairs. The run upon a rock and I shall be Japanese had gone off and left him to to the wharf again. A tiny figure, ing made an inclusive, hospitable drowned here like a rat In a hole, If his fate. The door, he had no doubt, niuinod in a cloak, was waiting there, captain gesture, accompanied by a low saluam. they do not let me out! Open this had been Jammed open by the strainas this aside and the others stepped mind was relieved. ing and plunging of the ship. There door! Hello! Onen. I Bay!" Hardy's person approached. was land In the distance, a faint coastlooked comfortable, so divan The vexed with not me," aro "I hone you on line, which ho knew could not be that It himhe lav and down VI. CHAPTER composed said a familiar voice In the of Russia, for the Shlkoku Maru had self for sleep. He woke up about an woman. an educated of accents lated been out only a few hours when she hour later on the floor. The wind was A Terrible Hour. 'Alsome!" cried Jinruy. struck. the Hardy remained on the wreck and Increased of The shin had evidently ridden nart- rising plunging 'Yes, Alsome." noon. He had about made till had rolled htm boat tho nearly from his over or rock the reef which ly upon Hut but you speak English." his should the crew return, up mind, couch. with long, free b! rides, pounded 'Y.s. I am a graduate of Vnssar to let them get aboard, pick them off his blankets on the floor, It was perched and was He spread of In service an the now my at resting college and a mo- lay down und soon dozod off. He was anglo with noso downward. This was with his revolver and tako to the sea . country. Listen I have only with their boat, when he discovered a a second time awakened a cold ment and I feel that I would like to stream of water, suoutlne byfull nnon fortunate, because It precluded any Bteamer approaching. He signaled her Your com Immediate of Hardanger drowning. ,nir vmi an explanation. The plana him with terrible force. He Jumped dy's position was uncomfortable in and she sent a small boat that took spy. Russian a was panion were to his feet, only to be thrown sprawli- that there was not a level surface In him and his baggage off. She wai a of the forts, on oiled paper, of his right ng. The little vessel, which was light, the entire room for him to rest on. Russian Bteamer, bound for Vladfound between the soles who put was rolling from rail to rail, and the Man, Inferior In this respect to a cat ivostok. no doubt, was he, n Bl,oe bar water had coughed In through the or a fly or a worm, becomes next to (To UK the copy of them In your pocket, I II I anything has been taken." Tie Englishman did sreatly perturbed, yet he went careful- wireiiun nig ,,ekeu and his Hardy follow hi. saying after he had finished: ii was a dream right enough. Had I should have TV! '. fi e IJp'i He Sat Down by Her. ometta al coira prono'jij st ami of ill dug l SYNOPSIS. fashionable Button wealth, wan lilted lent by a friend to take Bird;, a ott hi 1 jasttLe American Trading Company On Ills journey throUKli tsourct K There Neville, "up- F?ii9nman. They agreed to Ruwla. Because of U8- Mances they were several by the Jananetie. I lard v nd found upon his person i (iwing maps of Jup forts, t'ven guiltless. ft staplpton j discowd e, your old BUM id, Tb i tHAPTER le about tl' een of at th in the early mg Yokohama on a toy irted at 6:45. All day through a country tilled a country of vivid Mny brawling streams u crystal, and hlllslrtpa The sky was dark t one or the excess of f B id been Tbeiw Tisiw a r. and fcT" iclghbortoj vay roii Nippon, 4- Id stand i and petlmes by on nil ie got otly ' sometimes attained :scPe eardenlne. or npr. :7land. The freouent 'It built of hnmhnn oat fe thatched with straw, nrabular)' i ,e' licr d teleFH his ' jt Comfort us a lot o ft n'on Fra satisfaction companion gazed they were enter- running comment of uragoman, Masatsura they had picked up at low, public !id impressionlat ever low and near close by appeared mea grass, ok .a Fairy-Land- . fur Aomorl. off o wail ,f light, or, perhaps, one might fancy a little gold dust mingled with the mortal clay of which she is made. She Is as dainty as a March lilac blossom, her lips are as red as cherries, and the blood that shines through her cheeks, like like firelight through a delicately-staineIs as window warmly red as if she were Anglo- Saxon. I can understand now how foreigners, like your own Edwin Ar nold, for instance, have married Japanese women. Is it true that they do not kiss? Such lips as those were and merciful intended by an Providence for kissing. "You'll Jolly well change all those Ideas after you'd been here a while," replied Neville. "You grow sick of yellow people after living with them, As far as I'm concerned, I'd as soon kiss a rat as a Japanese girl." "Well," said Hardy, to whom the conversation was becoming distaste ful, "It's not the thing to discuss a lady, even if we are In a foreign country and observing and discussing everything. I must Insist, however, that I should weary of people like our little friend opposite very slowly." An Idea occurred to Hardy Neville was so disagreeable, he would talk to Miss Sano. He proposed the matter to Mnsatsura. who Informed him that the young lady would be Incredibly honored. Masatsura addressed a few words to her and sho smiled on Hardy by way of assent and comprehension, lie sat down by her, and Masatsura. Instanding before them, acted as emleast the not was terpreter. She barrassed or silly. Her manner combined the most deferential interest and a quaint suggestion of roguishness. When night came on. so she was called left the compartment 'or the women's quarters and Hardy and Neville lay down on the benches, which ran around the sides of the car like the seats in a Turkish house. Instead of across it. the They all slept soundly, but unan with troubled was American pleasant dream during the night. "It amounted almost to a night-"I mare," he explained to Neville. In with two thought that Alsome came us as f sean-hennd they Japanese was sti Alsome thieves. we had been childbeautiful, but sho did not look afra d ish any more. I was positively held of her in my dream. The girl the lantern and spoke once or twice, comIf sharp and quick, aswere giving and hard Her eyes mands. I could ferret. n of eager, like thoso fuel the man's hand running rapid pock-etc- , over my person, going Into my 1 Hoy crumpling up my shirt. felt even and opened the valises, out our shoes. Then they all stolenoise, door sliding the closing d Visit- It WIS III. "Well, to me, she's about the dalntl est and most exquisite creation my eyes ever rested on," persisted the American. "If there's any yellow in her cheeks, it's a slight tinge of moon young Japanese had Tears In New York. Wd Was brlirhr and "erge of aneae pcrtness. merchant and a oman boarded thn tniddle of tim ,i w ho acted as Intro- - lance el! :il the line silk "u ne ppy merchant," a irolnir ,HI, inn. ? not object, ho hfcr In with Hi. I 811..1. i.. .t. ,n(1 Anierlni." 7 F 1 of J health making one of his ''"I. "Wo ok.,11 l. ... "v "nun ue ae, n lmly's Hoclofv... ;; 7 m- sno.- the - - nv 6o ltsUfd iitvi. i iv ,(ai smiles whole oi la morM la Creen. . .., .....l'ni ' u demure.. tcnnluiii Wdy. r ..we- - ,,JO wuy triehe K,de. N'ri,;:!:111!'"1- n't - Uardy "I nt say ..'oaiethlnfl! sicken- , "0kln nttome; i""'iuj " defiii.,,..... iia, that or, as all-wis- e Alsome-Ah-e-so- M7;HiNtrou8. All , "in again, Inferior lot. lessly." n'y 'ntllllHlnn. I... lanu nre- all UIICVPS. 1 in; .!,!. ' oeauty." were Neville. "Perhaps you -- -me, 1 irf' half- - d d s - e well-mod- CONTlxrun.) |