Show INBATtoGAt BY sasflfci Meredith Nichotson ILLUdTRATlOm 1907 tfCRfULt BY 80&BS 30 Days SYNOPSIS XI 00 Hsy° CO Mias Patricia Holbrook and Miss Helen Holbrook her niece were entrusted to the care of Dauranre Donovan a writer near Port Annandale Miss summering Patricia confided to Donovan that Bhe feared her brother Henry who ruined by a bank failure had constantly threatened her for money from his father’s will of which Miss Patricia was guardian They came to Port Annandale to escape Henry Donovan with the two sympathized women He learned of Miss Helen’s anDonovan discovered and noying suitor captured an Intruder who proved to be Reginald Gillespie suitor for the hand of Miss Helen Holbrook Gillespie disapA rough peared the following morning sailor appeared and was ordered away Donovan suw Miss Holbrook and her father meet on friendly terms Donovan fought an Italian assassin He met the man he supposed was Holbrook but who said he was Hartrldge a After a short discussion Donovan left surlily Gillespie was discovered by presenting a country church with Gillespie admitted he knew of Holbrook’s presence Miss Pat acknowledged to Donovan thnt Miss Helen had been While riding missing for a few hours In a launch the Italian sailor to mnleBt the trio but failed attempted Miss Pat announced her Intention of fighting Henry Holbrook and not seeking another hiding Donovan met Helen in garden at place night Duplicity of Helen was confessed by the young lady She admitted conniving with her father tier aunt’s despite precautions In a night meeting with Donovan The three went for a long ride the following day That night disguised as a pun Helen stole from the house She met Reginald Olllesple who told her his love Gillespie was confronted by Donovan Helen’s ibv'Sr escape At the town post office Helen unseen except by Donovan slipped a draft Into the hand of the Italian Sailor She also signaled her father Miss Pat and Donovan "took In” the A young lady resembling canoe carnival Miss Helen Holbrook was observed alone in a canoe wbefl Helen was thought to have been ftt home Donovan met "ppe latter confided giving Helen u000 for her father who had then left no spend It Gillespie told of the queer Miss Helen state of the Holbrook affairs and Donovan met In the night She told He him Olllesple was nothing to her confessed his love for her Donovan found Gillespie gagged and hound In a cabin Holhabited by the villainous Italian and brook CHAPTER 25 Year Guaranty Free 8Y RAY WALTERS copyRKHr AMJEB 25 Year Guaranty Continued pi‘‘You ugly dago! you Infernal rate — ” he bawled There was no mistaking that voice and I now saw two legs clothed In I was sure white duck that belonged to Gillespie My head and shoulders filled the window and so darkened the his room that the prisoner thought jailer had come back to torment him I muttered "Shut up Gillespie "This is Donovan That fellow will be back ifl a minute What can I do for you?” me?” he splutdo for can “What you "Oh tered thanks! I nothing wouldn’t have you put yourself out It’s nice In for anything In the world here and if that fellow kills me I’ll miss a great deal of the poverty and hardship of this sinful world But take your time Irishman Being tied by the legs like a calf is bully when you get used to it” In turning over the better to level his ironies at me he had stirred up the dust in the straw so that he sneezed and coughed in a ridiculous fashion As I did not move he added: “You come in here and cut these strings and I’ll tell you something nice some day” I ran round to the front door kicked it open and passed through a square room that contained a fireplace a camp bed a trunk and a table littered with old newspapers and a few books in the adjoining I found Gillespie room cut his thongs and helped him to his feet “Where is your boat?” he demanded “On the west side” “Then we’re in for a scrap That beggar goes down there for water and he’ll see that there’s another man on I had a gun when I came” the island he added mournfully He stamped his feet and threshed himself with his arms to restore circulation then we went into the larger room where he dug his own revolver from the trunk and pointed to the shotgun in the corner "You’d better get that This fellow has only n knife in his clothes He’ll be back on the run when he sees your canoe” And we heard on the instant I a man running toward the hut opened the breech of the shotgun to see whether it was loaded “Well how do you want to handle the situation?” I asked He had his eye on the window and threw up liis revolver and let go "Your pistol makes a howling noise riease don’t do that again Gillespie The smoke is disagreeable” "You are quite right and shooting through glass is always unfortunate! there’s bound to bo a certain deflection before the bullet strikes You see if were not a fool I should be a philosopher” "it isn’t nice here we’d better bolt” “I’m as hungry as a he said watching the window “And I am quite desperate when I miss my lea” stood before the open door and he We were both watched the window talking to cover ou1- serious deliberaOur plight w s not so much a tions matter for jesting Is we wished to make it appear to each other I had one with the struggle experienced Italian at the houseboat on the Tippeto get canoe and was not anxious I did within reach of his knife agaiu not know how he had captured Gillespie or what mischief that amiable person had been engaged in but Inquiries touching this matter must' wait “Are you ready? We don’t want to Trial lowed us to the shore and watched our departure In silence We swung round to the western shore and got my canoe and there again the Italian sullen ly watched us “He’s not so badly marooned” said out over “He can walk Gillespie here" He’a “No he’ll wait for Holbrook stumped now and doesn’t understand us He has exhausted his orders and A saltIs sick and tired of bis job water sailor loses his snap when he gets as far inland as this He’ll demand bis money when Holbrook turns up and clear out of this” We passed close to the Stiletto to get a better look at her She was the trimmest sailing craft in those'waters and the largest being I should say 37 feet on the water-linwith a cuddy large enough to bouse the skipper As we drew alongside I stood up the better to examine her and the Italian still watching us intently from the island cried out “Who Was the Other Man That shoot unless we have to Now when I say go jump for the open” He limped a little from the crampover to me crossed his of but legs ing His white trousenough cheerfully ers were much the worse for contact with the cabin floor and his shirt hung from hl3 shoulders in ribbons “My stomach bids me haste I’m going to eat a beefsteak two miles thick Are if I ever get back to New York you waiting?” We were about to spring through the outer door when the door at the rear flew open with a bang and the sailor landed on me with one leap I went down with a thump and a crack of my head on the floor that sickeped The gun wasJunder my legs 'and me I remember that my dazed wits tried to devise means for getting hold of it As my senses gradually came round I was aware of a great conflict about me and over me Gillespie was engaged with the In a struggle sailor and the cabin shook with their strife The table went down with a crash and Gillespie seemed to be having the best of it then the Italian and was afoot again the clenched figures crashed swaying against the trunk at the farther end of the room And there they fought in silence save of for the scraping their feet on the I felt a slight nausea puncheon floor from the smash my head had got but I began across the floor tocrawling men It was growward the struggling ing dark and they were knit together against the cabin wall like a single monstrous swaying figure My stomach was giving a better account of itself and I got to my knees I was within a and then to my feet yard of the wavering shadow and could white distinguish by his Gillespie trousers as he wrenched free and flung and in the Italian away from him that instant of freedom I heard the dull impact of Gillespie’s fist in the brute's face As the sailor went down I threw myself full length upon him but for the moment at least he was out of business and before I had satisfied myself that I had firmly grasped him Gillespie was hard blowing kneeling beside me with a rope in his hands “I think” he panted “I should like sauce with that steak champignon Donovan And I should like my potatoes Iyonnaise — the pungent onion is a spurring tonic That will do thanks for the arms Get off his legs and I’ll see what I can do for them You oughtn’t to have cut that rope my boy You might have known that we were going to need it father My taught me in I my youth never to cut a string want the pirate’s knife for a souvenir I kicked it out of his hand when you went How’s your head ?” “I still have it Let’s get you outside and have a look at you You think lie didn't land with the knife?” “Not a bit of it He nearly squeezed the life out of me two or three times What's that?” though “He gave me a jab with his sticker when he made that flying leap and guess I’m scratched” Gillespie opened my shirt and disclosed a scratch across my ribs downward from the left collar bone The first jab had struck the bone but the slash had left a nasty red subsequent line Gillespie swore softly in the strange phrases that he affected while he tended my injury My head ached and I the nausea came back occasionally sat down in the grass while Gillespie Wanted You to Kill Holbrook?” found the sailor's pail and went to He found fetch water some towels in the hut and between his droll chaffing and his deft ministrations I soon felt fit again “Well what shall we do with the dago?” he asked rubbing his arms and legs briskly “We ought to give him to the village constable” “That’s the law of it but not thf common sense The lords of 'justice would demand to know all the why and wherefores and the Italian consul at Chicago would come down and make a fuss and the man behind the dago would lay low and no good would come" “When will Holbrook be back!— that’s the question” “Well the market has been very feverish and my guess is that he won’t last many days He had a weakness as I remember for Industrials and What he they’ve been very groggy wants is his million from Miss Pat and he has own chivalrous notions of collecting it” We decided finally to leave the man free but to take away his boat Gillespie was disposed to make light of the whole affair now that we had got off with our lives We searched the hut for weapons and ammunition and having Collected several knives and a belt attd revolver from the trunk we poured water on the Italian carried him into the open and loosened the ropes with which Gillespie had tied him t The man glared at us fiercely and muttered incoherently for a few miiu utes but after Gillespie had dashed another pail of water on him he stood up and was tame enough “Tell him” said Gillespie “that we shall not kill him Tell him that this we shall being Tuesday spare his life — that we never kill any one on Tuesday but that we shall come back and make shark meat of him Assure him that we are terrible villains and “When will your employer return?” I asked the sailor He shook his head and declared that he did not 'know “How long did he hire you for?” “For all summer” He pointed to the sloop and I got it out of him that he had been hired in New York to come to the lake and sail it "In the creek up yonder” I said pointing toward the Tippecanoe “you tried to kill me There was another man with you Who was he?” “That was my boss” he replied luctantly though his English was clear enough “What is your employer’s name?” I demanded "Holbrook I sail his boat the Stiilet-tover there” lie replied “But it was not ho who was with you on the houseboat in the creek Mr Holbrook was not there Do not lie to me Who was the other man that wanted you to kill Holbrook?” He appeared mystified and Gillespie to whom I had told nothing of my encounter at the looked from one to the other of us with a puzzled expression on his face “All he knows is that he’s hired to sail a boat and incidentally Btiek people with his knife” said Gillespie In “We can do nothing till Holdisgust brook comes back let’s be going” We finally gathered up the Italian’s oars and carrying the captured arms went to the east shore where we put off in Gillespie’s rowboat trailing the Italian’s boat astern The sailor fol “He should fly the signal ‘Owner not on board’ ” remarked Gillespie as we pushed off and continued on our way The sun was low In the western wood as we passed out Into the larger lake Gillespie' took soundings with bis oar in the connecting channel and did not touch bottom " “You wouldn’t suppose the Stiletto could get through here it’s as shallow as a but there’s plenty and to spare” he said as he resumed rowing “But It takes a cool head—” I began then paused abruptly for there several hundred yards away a little back from the western shore against a strip of wood through which the sun burned redly I saw a man and a woman slowly walking back aqd forth Gillespie laboring steadily at the oars seemed not to see them and I made no sign My heart raced for a moment as I watched them pace back and forth for there was something familiar in both figures I knew that I had seen them before and talked with them I would 7 BWOrn tUat the man was Henry Holbrook and the girl Helen and I was aware that when they turned once twice at the ends of the path the girl made some delay and when they went on she was toward the lake as though shielding the man from our ooservation The last sight I had of them the girl stood with her back to us pointing into the west Then she put up her hand to her bare head as though catching a loosened strand of hair and the wind blew back her skirts like those of the A second later the Winged Victory trees stood there alertly with the golden targe of the sun shining like a but they had giant’s shield beyond gone and my heart was numb with foreboding or loneliness and heavy with the weight of things I did not understand Gillespie tugged hard with the burden of the tow at his back I will not as I deny that I was uncomfortable thought of his own affair with Helen Holbrook He had by any fair judgment a prior claim Her equivocal attitude toward him and her Inexplicable conduct toward her aunt were I knew appearing less and less 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