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Show mUNTV WFC'ILY PRESS, fcEAVER, tJtAlf TITE TttiAVFR tor 13a Klas MacKay, shall the way. ItwakUarXejmpty, Cc?er;-j3.cesae epoa ate that I let tee ke ted expectee,.,? i . sable die alone?" lie. taade Is. way the twnpaglon; Xutot Cungar WalVu commanded way to the little touagiag room ena 5 cannot hear what the cap Ulted't the pact doorway,-- ' looktag- BefUy, fife lb it Kit Jij? liM tain says." Their raising his volet: - m rtm say, "what captamr . snu IHe coold see nothing at first It you'd kind t Was, very daiVMiee a MgBt'soowed on count b going along with them after the Monleigh, In that respect Leyn- loading us wp 4a the yee with some I a taught no ''doubt by'hls expert fake dopeT Laynton flans ack sjuvleacea In toe discredlubtoand Taril 's Weo, yea can forget It trades .he had boasted was th? castlcally. You'd never get away from this ship business, had been prompt to - , meet etaVtnrtest like that" doal expect to get away," said i And then gradually, discernible only 4arMleth 4n Wallen simply, "They are to go. to ft sailer's aye Ilk When they are aafa HI tell you every thewater, Wallea made cut, another thing yon want to know. If what I steamer almost, abeam. A?V Instant tell you proves to be a lie I am still later,' aa though n grba Indorsement aboard." oi pis vision, irom ine dioicu - uirr "Well, that's fair," admitted Layn leapeq a greai reu name, cunio uiv ly TRANK L. PACKARD ton. "Ill take you up on that and ' heavy, resonant roar of the gun's re ; IBs word. ware Jw la a sudden ru-- port and 'Overhead- - a 'shell whistled t)efeationSlnr which Wallen ominously y. 't, m mile Wallen bow placed the. a could distinguish liott's voice. Then Apout . i. . . a' .i f 111 i ,; CHAPTER VIII Continued. ' : i aisiance came a nauow irom ine oeiwceo me tvimwib, captain 12 slse .of to theother h.e the KTlTptt-floa- e your Jaw!- What's the though as you think those dwils out there Ein eomnarea to me otnerr ; i couia xonn no estimate. out um it wllf let m out of this alive? Do you ml waa on Watlpn'a Una I matter? Atmnat lutukjthat Wding behind your, skirt She was well armed af ma evenu; smile ihat was curiously Uke a win; save me or save youT There, fa prayeA lt was his last card, and he anorlt was RamtJulab Hagh, once a food here see, the table Is set-thbid. played! it, and It was the master government efBclal.'' always at robotr ' la ote reason why I chose the moment an a murdpreewhe ; .man who had trump, y . tha I did. Gunga. In low, passionate words. brosght his motherito sfcer death, his They cannot starve us out" We are rastill pleading with him. Captain jtaler Jo his death, and bow it was his " ' ..jsMMebi ' wcuio. vsawsaaj l Enned now, Gunga and I, and we can toynton shouted down the companion- - fwn turn 1 door for longer than they I & But ne" knew neither excitement nor" ay again: wltt care to wait, for a heavier price Tit take you up on that Well dismay. "5 lie wts patycdnscki8of thtu they will care to pay. They are in now and Hi send them ashore soffletmnr SdMMOBrmi innir 'WHBin stand not fools. They know that' And that In a I hlr and that was because Helen Mne- . boat" Is Ithe one chance for you that they No." continued Wallen coldly: Kay was beret, 41 shook his ,hea(V,a I' i v.. wilt accept the terms I have to offer.' "you'll send a" boat ashore and ..ask little.. . Helen MscKay,, . pf Coqre na i am safer here wjtjOLinufe. MatKhleht to come but here In a nroa. would never fall Into . Item. Gulfth n'deifrl"fnna"'.m'postor who steals There's a slight difference. I said I Singh's hands alive. ( , dead man's namer she asked evenly. t theDIGNIFIED 'open-ai-r un me onage ne coma near imjut wanted to see them safe, not rowed The red surged Into Wallen's face the to be. kDowa-aaround the ship and put aboard agqln ton calUng.dowa the engine roonvtuhe, ater, and died away again, leaving It pale on .the other side.' Booaevelt, i rorunv ,h built englneerfor fratlcjlllmplorlngjthe and haggard. His eyes met hers and along the lines of, a Greek Well, have It your own way; speed;. and then, LayntonTs Voice was held in a long gaze. They were hard, ' "I'm drowned out by a din from forward by amphitheater and utilized laughed unpleasantly. Laynton those fearless brown eyes, cruelly hard crew. ss , a, nonpartisan meeting the and that goes. We'll' agreeable, enough; but,' too, they seemed to hold seemed to come from the port f, Wallea, hugging the shadows of the by ( parotU;,,1 AmeriIt place a strange challenge to him to refute cans for the discussion of to boom muffled moved forward postrolled a a that deckhouses, quarter what she had said. over the water. And grave Problems affecting the and jeverherated "ghall I answer you? Do you expect of,the and still another. And ' Mott wai talking exdtcdjy pjrhed. future of aa answer?" he said steadily. Then then aanother, ' "She's coming up hand over hand, 1 features of the proposed park st Oyswild shout from the deck, then the answer is no. Ton are aafer here Wallen glanced quickly about him. tell you If that fellow Wallen's story ter Bay,.' The plans already have been only for a little while only for a For the first time he noticed that Is straight after all and I guess there approved by irthe Roosevelt Memorial moment' She started back with a HtUe cry, Helen -MacKay's 4oor was slightly aln!t,TOUcJidouhtfjt qout " ;Jher rigb hope IZ that chupj jElectus D. Litchfield, architect w,ho opened,- and now stood ajar. Gunga retrea&ng to her cafiln "door. ( us he sink don t aboard the monument to president oa, designed to providing next hers. rushed into stfiterootn ihe did notmean to 'frlghten-you,- " astennmtlt-wat Columbus, Ohio, and' who full flrstrT go McKlnley say get Came boom distant ; that dull, again v said Wallen gently, 1 mean that ' 'comoff and . then take to the .her. away renda hakfxecuted,'jothef then taprtaht crash, ripping, tearing, there is another danger quite apart 'b ' 'been We boats. the him could has missions,'' Moaengaged the, slip and give wood of the and ing4 steel, from any on board. You know what Roosevelt eommltteeIn we he Memorial Oyswait If st the don't 4ark : till, to shock. heeled die Laynton and the others are after, and leigh gets tea near to see wpst we re about ter Bay to carry out these, plans for t you have been - told by Gunga here , Tbenr Gunga called: the memorial park,j Mr Litchfield lives too see the It la I , later that though you may not choose to "Sahib, Another 'toko cut InV LarscnVat st. .Oyster Ray and was a neighbor of believe it they are inviting, their own flash of guns. He win come- from be Ae ran up the star Colofiel BooseTeltrf Tberef pre he U destruction. , Jn an hour, in twenty- - hind one of the Islands. It Is Ram Go- hurrying from aft ! It Is Interesting, In view of the pre board Sadder to the bridge. wlth.jtbejyark.slte n, M;,. finally look la described thus by Mr. j four, there, will not be a man alive lab Singh.' ' V; Mf. Litchfield thinks a forum' such Utchfirid:;,.x,- -' ; . ent Invited movement, to recall the fight tU&C he Mott," -elp yourself,' aboard this ship, and "On the axis of She mala apnroacn was made several years air by some )ne boat's In splinters as has been;,suggestedor, fhe,, park sarcastically. chapter7x.TT A terrific smash upon the door cut ' i '. V.' hj ..... and Che other's carried away ; the deck .would have met with the approbation standing 6ut In firm silhouette against oi me citizens oi uyster tuiy ilt short his words, and, whirling around, disthe and of New the himself. colonel of the the the ays background bay shell "wreck Irom that that aft la a The Man Wrtli On Finger. park a fight that resulted In fHllorer-b- ut he Jumped to Gunga's side. The shock ' YoVVT'SbbC Menlhets, of the Roosevelt tant hills of .Center Island, sl.oul d M Wallen walked quietly across the struck vs." which aroused the Interest A CoU- . of some heavy object, used obviously Llght that Morse lamp," ordered MeiMifeaseottskldn ' anm feel that a, great flagpole with a monamentai. onel rouMevtilt who did bat b could aa a battering ram, bad loosened their saloon to his own cabin. - A'straase, which will be forever reminiscent :'"t!' ! r such k fomra could be mafle most use-fu- l bake, at that time t arouse the enthus'.m makeshift prop, the door jtad yielded unnatural calm seemed to have fallen Laynton abruptly.. of ! the colonel's Intense, love for the out life la m our national Inr our "him carry . words. him and Tee with "Yes, position." glva of Gunga's his over, de by. perhaps an Inch, and Guaga bow upon .viv-?..'.jrkfA of the laIn ai useful and vital way the Ideals American aneered Mottv-,vf ,t W;,u was straining with might and main Intel.,;' ..? there) .be should a .fountain, and ; He could and. teachings, of Theodore Roosevelt,. goon "He'a- - got"It last enough not in Justice reproach to force It back Into place. "For yars fhd townspeople laedlscd beyond It a long approach from the to " growled Laynton. "But we'll give him Wallen flung his weight against the himself. There had been only take any action to secure the Just MK'Lltchneid'a1 Vlslbn;,:1 west native between thickly planted something else. You there, Larsen, door not an Instant too soon. It which a few of them, bad .inrights American shrubs - and Tight "At- - the . head ef the, auditorium d'ye hear? And Morse, tell him came again, the smash upon the door. enjoyed," wrote Colonel frequently wild dogtrees; laurel, honeysuckle, that If It's that swine that's masquer-- says Mr,. Litchfield in. describing his - but with It a scream of pain above the Roosevelt the winter of 1318 In during wood, beech and ash forming a dense adlng as WsTlen he' wants, we'll turn plans for the pajk,,there. would, be a shouts and cries. , Came , another this unsuccessful battle for scribing dark foliage la contrast to the gravel him aver and my Godr-wlth'al- 'rlp misconscream then again the scurrying of rosjTuni, having , Its vest , front ..built 4 park: selfish "Then the In' the and crash, staggering the ship,4 a shot Somewhat ln'the form of s Greek the walks, the reflection of the sky feet to retreat then silence.'.. Gangs duct of, one orrtwo property owners of. the blue the and lagoon bright deep tore the wireless house to matchwood. ater and providing a stage upon which had fired this time, but not at the floor. . . thdsoglsflb'dPny all proper access , - ekM.ir-Ov- . bat itself." ' "Sahib "Quick 1" yelled Lay ntoo. "Tell htm 1 may be seated the performers st opensaid Gunga calmly,' we It has also' been suggested to .the to their beaches roused a feeling which TeU him. D'ye hear teU him ! He'U sir concert ' tor the ''people;- Within were la too great haste. See" he Memorial association that manifested Itself In a foolish and vicRoosevelt five Its walls' I. had hoped there Tnlght be another in have vis at the bottom Jammed,the. dismantled. cabIn.door " aselms are the most beutlfu .trees ious effort at one time a mob effort minutes!" more securely Into position, wedging it a' reception room and a small halt. for the to the docks and thereby prepark It would be sn excellent ventdestroy A strsnge, awed alienee held for an somewhst in the nature-o- f a supreme Idea to call the property owners of access to against the Iron base of the chair with the upon of, Long farmers, Instant following the shot; and now, court roonj ln the capltol at ,,Wfthing a piece f wood that he wrenched from The motive seemed Island and Connecticut to donate spec their sailboats. over his head, Wallen could distinctly will not slip the chair's back ton.J.wbere.,would be,, gathered ...from imen elm trees to the association. ' to be leas to secure tbelr own right hear" the clicking of the Morse set time, to time once every two or, three,! (The site of the proposed park Is of than to Interfere with those of whom He . strained his eyes seaward. years, or two, or Wallea sodded, testing the barritiroes a year, great natural beauty. The ensemble they were Jealous. Recourse te the cade. It was arm now, and would hold watching for aa answering signal, and ss in the opinion of the trustees of the effect would be somewhat similar to law finally settled the right of Jhe aa long aa anything the saloon door after a. moment Jt came but not In Jloosevelt fornmv the occasion may re the beautiful owners fo their docks snd park at Versailles, where property Morse. It waa thes belching flare of quire, a few of the great men of the the" V. ..',-Itself remained.,,:' . .,;'.' '. was held, but it their duty to keep openings In the peace conference, aud-.tv- s He looked around. the gun again, and again the rend and country, who ttsTr there1 discuss be- will be typically American In spirit snd docks so that the dimmers the projectile .as it tore into fore the whole nation the grave ques conception. Helen MacKay had gone into her smash rsre wsyrnsers ajongde peecrr "wroLia jTherevwlll be no attjrapf cabin and the door was shut ' Posthe Monletgh's huU... . tions that wm effect conditions In this) on the hot belntefferedLwltbiO U Imitate of the architect to part There was no doubt about the range country as a result of the war's af ter-- the Versailles sibly half aa hoar passed, and they But this did not help those farm scheme. The proposed walted-Gung- a on one side a little ont A,t bow, nor the tenor ei Ram Gulab ma.thT ' lagoon will look like a diamond set; la ers prrUtsgers who occasionally wish of direct range frost the door. And Slnga answer. It was ar. Gunga had ... This beautiful psrk to the memory green Jade, and, through- - a fringe of ed to come to tne Deacn for oauing then Wallen distinguished said the principle that dead men tell of ,s .great , American swtU. mbrace elm trees the few public-spirite- d per-spectator wilt' get a or boating. A stateda--snove&$eno tale."': Bud- Gulab JSInghs tsctics, about forty acres and titles to the gllmpsrof-the-Roosere- tt sound of voices.; therefore foraut-Ov- er tone For a moment he could not place the from Ram Gulab Singh's standpoint, I property have been examined and sur- all will .wave park, with a Jong stretchofhft''i .theJ5tarui4SirJpes sound and then he smiled mirthlessly. were iuiiict tav snip mgat uis veys made, ... JVben eomplered. this. park that the colonel wved so wen," ;ln ev public and private boathoi. Helen MacKay was talking through es appear Off the face "of the earth and will have an athletic field, tennis ery way the atnrwni btrttfiurget"fhe es iaA could be erected. be never heard af agasa was one thing, courts; bathing beach end pavilion, the the porthole of her stateroom to someo none ,'of Various of persons, man the waa who ylrile personality . one out otf the deck. Made Hla Way Up the Companlonway. but that she or anyone n board her theater, a great flagpole ISO feet high first lsst and all the time an Amerlcaa. whom would ever have ued the perk, should return to report that she had snd a behatlfuf ptoWetlade, kfched by And then, abruptly, in a shout came Referrlpg to the flagpole with monu agreed to .furnish half the money) If JtA Laynton's voice, apparently from the rnance. aoa s naa taken u Mae- been attacked in these water, snspi- Jitt joearter 0t. srtlcti;.rWl mental bae which forms, iff 1 wayrtftf the to n would fi.r!sh the othet baii Knlghtfa. .,Even if be tad defied Layn dously those of Baa Gulab Singh, was top of the compsolonwai Xm-.- " i !. ..cit'j-.-K- . of the formal scheme. Mr. Litch It wae'v(ed on at the oext election. center ton crew his sordid and hours earlier, quite another I Tott below there I" The idea of William Loeb, Jr., chair field suggested that some day the Inse' 'rode t down ri9vhe polls with' a Wallen smiled grimly. He had been the result would have been the sam-e- - And then to Wallen casme a space of man ilTUie Rooseveifwnorlar conv a hired man sr good, uprlpl t, final friend, the of resting place jht it would have brought neither the land time that he could not estimate, each mlttee at Oyster lis y, and othet mem mlght.be waiting a long while for that g ; V lives soft s mortal . dtUcn,-h- o . great ;man's pert nor llacKnlght's the sooner. Cv' moment recording some wild,' unreal, bers of "Welir ha answered Indifferently. is td have, a J ... May Coat 100,000. from the water, who owns i miles away Bam was Gulab that tt Singh bewildering, kaleidoscopic change In narhot only "Look Laynton'r toice erevjia. the .best' and The- - cost of 4he-- memoriwl'' has 'been s email property- and 1a- - therefore4 a became - modulated and"' tmctuousty the scene around him. Again that ter- most heatthful way amusement facili yarloqsly; estimated," beginning with small taxpayer. After voting I fouVl He took, his reserve supply of am rific crash .front a striking shell, and ties for the country at smooth. "You ain't doing yourself any sums Jess than $1.000,P0O.,Jut.,tbe that '.our; two iTotes.had neutrally t lars; a park " munition from its hiding place, stowed then a scream, unearthly, mot human, that Will htfve e? Individuality You fool the this good by playing wsy. and who have studied the plan fuel that esch other; he voted against the pari. ; come on out of there, give us the In- - half the boxes awsy In his pocket and. from the very bowels of the Ship a atmosphere suf gesthre of the life and 11,500,000 should be rained to assure sod the park proposition was beat a formation we want, and we'll forget with the balance of the cartridges la tremor of the- - "vessel from stem to spirit or BoobeveiL Tne colonel was Its complete realltatlon. Although the by the votes of the smaller taxpayers about this, for an that two of my his hand, returned to the saloon and stern, a groaning; screeching, wrencha practical man who combined artistic memorial. Is In some extent local, in who Hvetf Inland ' and . from among ' chaps have got bullets through their gave them to Gunga,' motioning the ing of mangled machinery, a tottering Ideas with common sense execution. larger view It concerns the whole na- whont the eh'ef beneficiaries ef hs ; other to. remove the barricade. shoulders' thud as though the engines had colsnd the Roosevelt Memorial assocla tion. .The sum la .very .small. park would have come.. (The bo!dfcs ' ''What ara you going to dor She. lapsed upon their bedplates, a cloud tlon does sot want a park- - that would If t be distributedgiven "What's the ship's positlonr over the bopuiatlnn. Is Colonel Roosevelt's.), These nieit had come put from her stateroom and of steam (J' Wallen coolly.'. , , volleying skyward from the not hsve" met with the approval of the School children alone could and would had felt vaguely Jealous of the rich'' a was resolute standing now, straight, There was a quick oath from Capowners near the' water and engine room hatch, and there was. no colonel, himself. As, , jnater ,of .fact jdve ah appreciable part of It Indeed, very more vibration and the Monlelgh lay Colonel RooHevelt himself very morn since Iryster Bay stands for tb Roose- property tain Laynton. "I guess you know little figure; with eyes that were had sympsthlzed with the movement to ' wide ss they fixed on him.' blamed well l" be growled. a be,P'tfts thing, with only a sullen desired such a park at Oyster Ray snd velt lioroe life. It Is peculiarly appro- Interfere with them; but they were vct ' ' The electric bulb in the saloon movement now from the momentum of publicly expressed his views on the "We've Arm abeam, ha vent we T priate that the nation's children should willing to Incur tbe small expensejiws down and went ont The boom a moment gone. dimmed T"" Wallen . , ;. take e special interest In such a me- essary In order to establish such coli'io quietly. subject.' ' persisted How the Park Will Look. "Yes." , ,., of the heavy gun came across the wa " He drewback against, the captain's morial si tbey did In the restoration tlve ownership of s portion of the ; ' ' , "Well." said WsUen slowly, TH tell ter again, and unconsciously for a room. . The , general appearance of the of Washington's borne at ''Mount!. Tern terfront as would enable them to en-' ' Wallen waited, expectant ' down from the Roosevelt Memorial park as. H will non. , i . you what you want to know on one tense Instant , i Joy their rights along It of the shock if the shell should find Its : condition." to themMott burl snd Larsen, bridge, So you do. know, ehr mark. It missed. "Ahai selves down the forward ladders from ' "I'm going on deck," ho , answered snarled Layntoa "I thought we'd get the boat deck to the flush foredeck be- - SCIENTIFIC' WORK H fiUSSIA sian government's hydrographlc office. Ing from the White mi t ntwnrd ta . rs these., undertoklns CopejChelyunfik .nJU ont,f,yon bfora tr a were, through.. quietly. "Theyll be too busy to notice tocvshectlrig a wif5Vtt af orders to eeif r was pnhllHhed last November In the ihe command of Ctptsln Vlikltskii. You're beginning to Khow same signs wo, snd bcHldes it's dark'.' Gunga will the crew as they ran, ; Aa Ambitious Campaign ef Survey I Cpmptes Rendu of the French acad- the discoverer of Nicholas II of sense my, lad. What's the condl stay here and replace the barricade Work Alone SlberiJa Coast (TO BS CONTINUED.) ' emy of sciences by snd the leader ' cf tT.e after I go put' We've got to know .lit!. , Is Undertaken. . tlonr , Miss MacKay. J The w oceanognijiher, Gen, J. G. Sbokalskt, which" mad th rv U;.-- t . , Tit's .Strange Animals, simple enoogtC, Wallen replied what's golnf on, is still in Tetrogrud, so far Ss from. Bering.' strait to Ute Atlantis i struck been once, though not .'At the foot of Mount Kowsng, la One of th 'most urprlHlng. pieces has shortly. "You'll stand in dose to Arm ship but down here Is no North Manchuria, there live strange of news Oiat haa toui.. )steJyi froii known.. Subsequently Getiftral Ehokal-sk- l ocean In 1014-1I r- think; vitally, station let aad pfrry. opposite MncKnlght's in if another ihot animals has found meant f tending let- Trying from. Ope CU'vur.' v.:i to r RoHSla le that in spite of untoward called ; .ailaa Alacuay ana uunga Cfjra . ga place to be caught . nrove more successful. - I will be back They are larger than ordinary spes political conditions an smbltlous cam- ter on the same suhject to some of ring strait, wns to be coiirsur-iuloy ashore." ' , v -'r and dig spacious caverns on the rocky paign of survey vVotk' in the Arctic his scientific, friends Id the United Copt F. A. KovnpashennH. Y.vxf. i ...? "I. sahlh roT Ouoga had slipped presently." ' :' ; : without States. new radio stations wr ti b tttlnt her a chance, to t sides of the hills. During the spring ocean slong the Siberian Ofcoast was quickly ; to.; Wallen's side and was un-e- r 1018 . . , r beThe as carwere the stiramcr door llshed to 4o in' fncllMat the explorations undertaken Mr store sufficient sumiu'-f he through and rf .slipped they . clutching at Wallen's sleeve, cp I Will of the Rus ried out by two parties. One, work- d!ttotis. A i. the Immediate-directio- n Cot gou sahib. If the sahio gives his Gunga opened it and out Into the alley- food for the winter. "I Mid - you MPOSTOR Mcn-lelgh- n -- t m . io . Do , 1 . -- t i . (, s I 1 t . ' fa-mil-iar "'- .V" . i'" - . . '.flas-tstb- ptoJecClf ;, - It S . - - - . , It . j if ' t .'1 tt UtJ rh path-hous- well-to-d- J)e...-lagrxnv.i.- trti ' . hard-wprkln- y hwow r e. ' , .,.:," ,r. were-rushin- -- . - t -- ? si.!;j r Am-flx-r . l , ScN-ntif-- |