Show 0 0 THE DOOM TRAIL aft lr ELM AI by arthur D howden bowden smith author of PORTO BELLO GOLD et etc ao by uncle service CHAPTER ill III continued froin ron itoe siet make mistakes remarked it with a gesture of aa ja it to the negro may lay I 1 ask ito ho hii 11 tire art sir lie addressed me all loe you ou may I 1 rolled r olly aind with it sense of mellef I 1 I 1 A fi filed tile lie bobbed scratch wig afy of ly and tossed it into tile sea ans doe 14 hat itt help you ion tit nt till nil I 1 inquired of sll ij iha slap lie stared jack back nt at in me ills face nil 11 awn alth etli lindred hatred lin tred 1 I knew you ou with it on lie sald sav gely it become you yon why aliv should 1 I wear car tile alie clothes of i sen cen ninn in I 1 t y luig hed nt licul but murray inter anter abed led quickly illel ill ll 8 do an oneall tip tie c e yen lie made inide it a gesture lit in my mr dl df qt tn 11 1 ills per on who lio v wast f in tilt hinline inline bilte ftp of tile pretender libi ills tender not tong UKO ago and afo 1 to tn england to see hpak a pardon re r I 1 jail tt flat and detested by b nil all honor bihn nien lit in parts perls but ill lif england Tn Kland lili lit protestations of loyalty worp re buted nl for they alie naturi illy tilly doubted tile od verity of 0 one who mho wearied so soon clann afan cause I 1 ills ts this true murray a ked nip lite swithin reason eason I 1 sold said W arav iti from one to tile the other still tit me hut but I 1 rejoice to see bilat wf we rilay look forward to tin nn enter tit oi iRel I 1 lit lie exclaimed 1 I had fired red atwould be most tedious are ftp 6 plin satisfaction front from the lie sen gen chevalier cho aller 41 1 shall hill light hill bilm when I 1 choose on of nf lily own choosing replied y YA milie courtly kurtly imanil band hy by no mearis means with small I 1 jeerer jeered file lie wf gave me a black took look yoi will pray arny me to kill you ou if you P t rail into my ni power Orai Ori erod nerod I 1 1 l allt until then Ns s you mm please t ile hf tinned tin and left us murray took muff vary ery deliberately first offer lne inix I 1 to ni me which he had not done oil i and scrutinized me politely fr head to toot foot 1 I 1 have ha e been patronizing patronI InK lit in I llyl doll fillet sir lie observed pray iray my 4 it 11 perfect and your our manner it I 1 may fc Ayco Y izo its s well conceived i you it si an I 1 fn to s bort I 1 find you nn an opponent of aja aily different importance yon are he shot at nip me suture Sf ture sir that flint Is for you to say pity I 1 nizile 1 ip answer so far ns as I 1 know nt at tat line we trie merely rely happen to he pas angerst en gerst together toRP ther on this craft r atti lauchert lau ehert inight have known it 11 1 lip he exclaimed aimed not like jurgins to aerita ken dai bumpkin to burnet lie he linth hath jena ian an enemy I 1 might not scorn at ny nion moment lent but I 1 must po go belo below w 4 t I 1 liae have some papers to attend to ardell shall hall also attempt to induce the chevalier de jeulle to preserve tile the amenities of life whilst we MC are re to such confined quarters ciu arters I 1 ahe he shall not have to labor against I 1 promised its as lie he de arad 5 despite myself I 1 was taken with hie ills unmistakable breeding ditc reidy aily wit the assurance of power iii and itself sum chency which radiated broil and explained nt as I 1 thought thou glit alq readiness to admit himself lit in the wrig wrong all these joined to inspire re live f or his parts it if not adin admiration fration I 1 0 lr ill 8 I 1 1 liar l ar acter arri 1 the rest of that it ny I 1 made layf atit at home about the ship talking seamen tin and their oil leers and iva watching citing vainly for lie lady of ili irein k chloal who mho had awakened me A ath t lut but slie she kept tier her cabin second afternoon when we ivera stilling easl with 1 n I fair wind I 1 found ner then lien as I 1 re turned umed front n walk forward staid tier her liand hand on the poop railing Jot eadi tier her cju e niel met our father I 1 said onik to lier her side and I 1 mike make no 0 o nailie present me ine avre lie he jet io O O sir she bald st stiffly lilly 1 I little have no desire for your jour com puny 11 stared nt at tier her mouth agape if I 1 1110 e offended r I 1 began 1 I giuy illy its as well tell vou slip she interrupted tilt inc again 1 I have heard flint about you which will make nto ino have no iio inclination for sow 1 colo company pally and nil I 1 biall risk ask you vou to tell lull tile rue what that lint Is I 1 retorted with mounting indignation dig nation it Is 14 not fair that lint you ou should accept tile lie slurs sluis of if till nil enemy bellind behind my illy back sin lie that luilly ma bp be so slip t lip admitted hut but ion will lit he willing milling to answer nip HIP two questions surely you yon me are captain Orni ormerod erod formerly chamberlain to lo king baines ill III yes ye anil you not long ago 1190 abandoned tin tile rings kings service and nd fruitlessly sought ought i it 11 pin don lit ill london yes that Is enough for nip me you me are a tr traitor altor it a dearer proven out of our own OMI mouth but no sli there lacre Is you on cun can an say would interest intel est t lite ni I 1 should de dc salse you yon none the less lind find you ou dr it lit in the sam circumstances to mv lily own side it makes 1 it no ito less cut cul that you jou deserted front from my side because our fortunes were pu lit at low m ebb nut you ou shall hear nip I 1 protested this Is absurd al surd what you say you have hae taken two to bare statements of fact arid and twisted into them the implications 4 skillfully inalle by it 11 personal i you last alight ali fv slie rile said withdraw IHK the told folds 0 ot r it cloak fro 0 o flint they might not touch in n y iou oil paned upon my lily sympathies with va title of elly arid and a brother hurled buried it in tile he clun country unil und I 1 was I 1 till nil for v with you arid and sorrow for your sori orrow ow you yoli us its much as told nip me you one of the good people you let me 1116 deceive myself after you had deceived tile me first oh 01 1 you boll will birve acted 1 billat jIl lat I 1 told you wis was true I 1 was out in the 10 19 1 1 I led fled to to scotland with my ni brother lie he died and was nas hurled burled theo I 1 escaped with tile remnants of the expedition I 1 am an all axll elle tit at this nio moment ment an exile p alel I 1 I 1 think on the linnert nien inen can truly say sn flint in ill their this day da 1 U and vou ou I 1 could weep for tile alio shame that tour dead brother brot lier arid and the li iother flint lore you yon will ile be feeling as they hey look down upon yon I 1 with flint she rile was Rone gone gonrand anil and I 1 was left cursing up de Ve belille velille lille whose treacherous tongue had planted tile the distorted shreds of 0 truth in tier lier mind cursing murray urray who must lieve lave f stood by and listened to it all smugly amused cursing c my illy cousin who ila had put me in sill silah h a plight after winning my illy inheritance cursing the men and women at st germain who repaid years of site arid and ungrudging loyalty with such cn canardo canards can ards nardi cursing juggins for having embarked me upon tile the ship with tile lie clr cursing myself for getting into such n u false position cur cursing ring the girl but no common sense cattle came to 0 o lily iny rescue then there was MIR something unaccountably alne about her attitude thing I 1 should never neer have thought li ought to uncover in Nt daughter daug liter how ever beautiful and attractive site she m might I 1 ile be there theio wis was devotion for you faithfulness a t to 0 a lost 6 cause use tilt the truthfulness which only a good w oni 11 n curl possess tile the twilight faded rup rap dlly and I 1 found myself with no appetite for the he crowded main cubin cabin where ie de jeulle and pla piquet or my mv stuff y berth bertli I 1 at rolled thi the deek deck immerse I 1 in thought I 1 conned over what juggins ila biad told tire me memorized I new ninny of the ines messages sages lit lie had find in trusted to me speculated upon the lie possible turn of afro irs I 1 planned lit in some home vogue aeto to win will it a fortune in fit that un nn L kawh it it new world ahead or of trip me and the proceeds in ill one hand and a purdon portion in the other return and re calalin foxcroft from froin those cousins chin cupped in hall hand I 1 leaned upon tile the starboard rail in the black blach well of shadow which was formed I 1 y the overhang of the file forecastle at ana Q tile the towe towering ower lne plies piles of canvas that clothed tilt lip foremast soam somewhere where beyond tile lie wastes ot of watery darkness lint flint yelled veiled my lily eyes luy lily england the home which lind find disowned tile inc I 1 without tiny any warning warn lii it huge arm was twisted around mi my shoulders and a hand to ho huge that eliut my lily teeth could litake no ito impression lit in it wua was clamped down over my lily mouth another arm encircled iny illy aalst my arnis wiro were pitin vil to t my sides illy aly togs ipg i kicked ut at it muscular hody me lite tile lie bill bulwark wark bight lug hig litick with till iny strength I 1 was ivas fie nevertheless lifted front from tile the leek drek rind shoved slowly across the hilt flat level of tile lie tire rati rall ii do what I 1 might I 1 could not resist the pressure of those hose tremendous arit nr iiii lk which seemed to have it a reach ind arid 41 power lower telee those of my lily own I 1 gaa komad ped for h liali l anth us its they my illy jung 4 in gasping I 1 11 lineer taint tn fit flip tilt lf it musky odor which I 1 did not tit at once associate with tilt lie or if ti none else elfre elfr e on board tile alie ship it WIM was no use I 1 could not resist the liko arins mustered mastered tile me one swiftly to a trip grip on oil my lily logs legs I 1 was whirled into tile the clr and nd dropped clear of tile the fall liiK ilig failing milli tint 11 the cold waters eng nira tile me CHAPTER IV A truce I 1 came to n the surface fighting tor bronah lily iny hands battling fruitlessly tit at the italy side of tile ship which slid past us as relentlessly as the passage of time I 1 trice tract to cry out but the salt water chol choked ced me lite not lot it sound bound came from the lip decks above the blackness was absolute except for tile the mild gleam of a blunthorn lun thorn on the tit poop death was only n brace of minutes minute s IMI anav not death fl oil drowning dron hig but deith death froin tile the bitter cold that para lica nn iny limbs und arid smote in lily heart lit in the lie mad desperation of tin lily fear I 1 heaved myself waist high out of the aatu w alvr hands clutching niico nil clawing tor for the lie ort which reason insist lue have denied me lite to expect I 1 ans wils sinking liel beneath leath it smooth running wave aie along the counter ali hen n lily in fingers cattle lit in c conduct with n dripping tope which alch slipped through their grip und tind blushed nie lite in the face illy ai dianas lianas d ot of it ii aln tin and I 1 rove he a loose knot in fit the end knitli etli teeth clenched clen clied I 1 drew myself upward along the rope thrusting forward with my feet for purchase against tile the side sometimes I 1 slipped oy og the wet planks and then I 1 was us put to it to hold hot my position hut but after I 1 withdrew in lily body from the water what w lilt avith the urgency of illy effort aud and the stimulation of the exercise some degree of in lily strength returned rel umed and presently I 1 was able to pull myself up tip the rope hand over oer hand until I 1 reached a small projecting structure att at the leyel eel of the deck to which was fastened faste hed the he starboard ridging rit gIng of the ma mainmast I 1 it tit it s t on this hit of it a peatro platform I 1 rested myself below the level leel of t the alf but bul barks one arm thrust round a tautened s sta t 1 I suppose that it at the roost not more than he five nill minutes intes had elapsed since I 1 had been heaved headed overboard 0 PI board and obviously no one lilt had witnessed tile the incident for the dock deck was its as quiet tin and deserted as it had been when I 1 vas attacked 0 who lilt had done it I 1 accepted as a a primary fat fact ahe he impossibility that it could have been one of the ill e crew C r e w no N 0 I 1 must seek the he it ss ailant lit in the camp of my illy known enemies and those thoe tho e imi henhe it p n se twining mining arms could helone only apelike negro I 1 scrambled over oer tile the bulwark lit in a lash arid and crouched lied down upon the lie leek deck to survey suncy the situation it was one against three no four I 1 reflected bitterly for I 1 made tit no doubt the file girl irl would arany herself lier self against me I 1 kimt have hae some weapon ormerod la Is to realize that in murray he has an opponent who will stoop to anything to gain the ends to which ho he Is if fanatically devoted rc UE CONTI NUEl |