Show 5 c Y d TheIANDOfLN1R ° Dr v a CYRUS TOWNSCND Y y BRADY t llJsTRATtJIIJ JY 7rAjl ArzRf COPYBKyPI1DPdr WHlIIflt fOPYPKNIIdGRPRPbtllAlll j SYNOPSIS A young woman cast ufiliorn on n lonely lone-ly Island ands a solitary InlniMtnnt a young while man dressed like a savage and uniihln to speak In any known Inn 1 RuriRu Hlio dPcmcB I to educate him and inolil ids mind to her own Ideals Him ands a human Kkclvton the skeleton or n flop + i IJIhle and a silver box which lend her to the concliiHlnii that her companion com-panion WIIH runt aHhoru on the iBland when a child and that hln nanin IH John Itevrll Charnoclt or Virginia Near the q Bkclctnn slm finds two womnna HUBS ono of which bears an Itmcrlptlon J H C to M I1 T Kept IU l8iV Katharlno Hrnnton was a highly Bporlallzecl tuniluat v of a lending university Ilor I writ nAil on tho sex problem had attracted whlo attention at-tention The son of a I imittltnllllonnlri l becomes Infatuated with her and they dcclilo to put her theoile Into iinrtli With no other ceriMiiony than a hnnil f f clan they KO away tog tIu r A few tla Ron I R-on nlH yncht shows her that the man only professed lofty dents to POMSCBI l her t f CHAPTER VI Continued i I Sho began to rail IO how helpless she was Under tho Inspiration of a tf I belief which was as honest us it was mistaken she had put herself In tho power of this man ISveii If sun were ashore thoro would he no ono to whom she could appeal and hero on tho ship she was liolplehu Lingering remains of better things had kept him from tho last resort of tho tyrant forcelbut how long these would bo operatlvo In restraint silo could not tell Sho fancied not for long What t should sho do then She saw tho cud coming whon In his anger ho resorted to drink to drink which exploded the last vubtlno of his philosophy however ho had professed It Sho was frightened beyond meas ere when she realized tho depths to which ho had sunk and to which In spite of herself ho had dragged her What further descent wns boforo her Situ did not oven yet abandon that philosophy which had served her so i 111 Sho clung to that with tho more tenacious pride because of Its very weakness but sho loathed mankind On that yacht ho summed up for her tho wholo human race and sho hated him and It To what sorry pass had a fow weeks practical experience ro ducod her Sho had begged and pleaded with him to alter tho yachts course but ho had sworn ho would go farther south Into thoso unknown sons and keep her thoro until she crawled to his feet So the long hours dragged on Tho Inevitable rupture drew nearer At last It came In Its details It wits horrible but there was In it a great relief actor nit I CHAPTER VIIi VII-i The Joy of Freedom One night nt dinner nho had fled from him lIe had been drinking mote heavily than usual and was In un ugly t mood His handsome face was flushed i n savage frown overspread his browne brow-ne had risen during the meal and with a coarso endearment had attempted to Iy l hands upon herat last Sho had broken away and darted Into tho nearest cabin which happened to he his own Sho had closed the door and turned the key against him before ho realized what she was about She stood within tho little room panting enraged fearful yet ready to defend her all and almost glad tho crisis had arrived She could hear his drunken laugh outsldo the door Why you little fool ho 1 cried do you think I cant break that lock down in a moment The ships mine everyman every-man on its mine I pay em They I do my bidding I have you whore I want you and I can have you when 1 please nOIor later Was It true Could she appeal to the men But what could she say Although Al-though tho world know there was no J binding tlo between them to tho ofll cars and men of tho yacht sho was his wife They would not interfere And If she declared the truth she would I put herself beyond tho palo of their sympathies Being merely stupid men with conventional Ideas about propriety pro-priety In that event they would be less apt to interfere than over It was true she could do nothing Sho sank down on a hassock clenching her hands I As site sat her eyes fell on a chest of drawers screwed against tho bulkhead bulk-head Tho top contained various toilet articles of silver Among them was a t picture tho picture of a woman It was not her picture Moved by what impulse she did not top to analyze she rose and picked It up The face she looked at was ineffably vulgar and common Across tho bottom was writ ty ton In a sciawl unformed hand Your devoted wlfo There wan n date several t sev-eral yours before that hour Your devoted de-voted wife She had been in that stateroom before she had never seen that picture He had only brought it out since the rupture between them And so while entering Into thin relationship re-lationship with her In compliance L with principles and Ideas which she nt leant regarded as sacred and holy ho had not been n free man There was tyiQtlior woman to whom lie hud lieon bound Oh not by the marriage tie UUtt she rttpdalnod but by the honor which vas supposed to exist t aluouJ thieves mid which certainly tt forlfd exist moiis philosophers And f f1 in1 ii i rvdd > fury fillftl lire nni 01 lIC I I tl fit I fi-t t 5 given To contempt nnd pity for him i was added haired Tho combination transformed her Instead of avoiding she would seek him Ho was still In tho cabin She could hear him muttering thickly to himself Impulsively she stepped to tho door turned tho key In tho lock throw It open and entered tho brilliantly lighted luxurious cabin Ho had dismissed dis-missed tho attendants some time since with orders not to reappear unless un-less ho summoned them and they were alone Thoro was no likelihood of any Interruption whatsoever The man who was Iqnnlng back In his chair bent forward when she opened tho door lIe laughed viciously If sho had reflected she would have marveled mar-veled nt the change that n few weeks had wrought In one whom sho had hitherto deemed worthy of her affection affec-tion but she had eyes and thought for nothing except the business In hand So youve come out havo you ho stammered triumphantly Como of your own free will Youve found out havo you that I am master and you are coming to heel Ho whistled to her derisively whistled whis-tled as If to a dog Who Is this asked the woman inn In-n voice carefully suppressed yet which shook with wrath Sho held the photograph In Its heavy silver frame up before him Thats my wife ho said equably with no surprise or consternation Wo havent lived together for some years ho wont on with drunken good nature or Id tnko you back to San Francisco nnd introduce you to her Your wife exclaimed tho woman In that snmo low tense voice Then what am n My mistress said tho man bluntly blunt-ly throwing the last shred of concealment conceal-ment and decency to tho winds and a damned obstreperous one at that ho went on Now tho woman believed In no Providence but n trick got from her ancestry wrung the words from her lips My God My God she whispered i You havent any sneered the I man You told me so yourself Ho laughed And I believed you I would have believed anything to get youWell Well there was no God tho woman realized but she would bo her own god Her body shrank together a little lit-tle her hands clenched The feline was uppermost Sho could have sprung upon him but sho waited waited for sho know not what Whom tho gods destroy ran the ancient phrase they first make mad Ho rushed to his doom with blind follyYou You neednt be Jealous of her my dear ho mumbled on I used to think I loved her and wo wero married mar-ried damned foolishness as you might say Sho cant hold a candle to you If you are a little touched he tapped his forehead ImpudentlyIn the upper up-per story And this man this degraded thing regarded her QS n mad woman There might bo no God hut there was a devil and ho stood before her There might bo no heaven but there was a hell nnd she was in It On second thoughts ho rambled on I couldnt introduce you to her You arent respectable nnd she is Ho stopped nnd poured himself another an-other drink Respectable he laughed To hell with respectability Wo know a better thing that that Soul to soul heart to heart tire union of equals without i the trammels of conventional bonds for weaker beings Yes thats what you said And sho recognized with horror that he was quoting her own words Hut It doesnt go you see Its all very well In theory but it doesnt work out in practice The worlds got some Ideas of its own Its been holding em for a good many thousands thou-sands of years and you cant change em You belong to mo now To hell with your equality You are nothing more nor less than my property and mark you ho reached out a trem hung finger and shook It at her you salvation Is with me If I cast you off you go Into tho gutter She wondered vaguely how much more of this sho could stand nnd live Hut dont bo afraid he went on with n drunken attempt p at reassurance reassur-ance you art too line and too hand some even If you are cracked for that yet Im glad to see youve com to jour senses He rose heavily as ho spoke and felt his way around the table hand ocr hand Ho approached her She lot him do It Sho shrank a little closer together every muscle tonse for action She war noionger a woman she was a human tigress and her phi osonhy was gone He was too drank to see It too Incapacitated to talc warning 1 ThaIs right ho continued as too I perched nearer to her Stay right there Im coming to you as fast ns 1 can and when I get close to you well kiss and lie was by her side now tlo straightened himself up with a spa medic effort released his hold on the table and sti etched out his arms toward to-ward hnr Ind then she sprang lit i him How sho did It sho could nave tell but in soino way her outstretched arms grasping for his throat struck him in the breast Unsteady on his fi yi he went down ns if ho had been si i ct Sat h was the violence of his fan that i4 fa-n Wicntum carried her with ip Q ir n ruA 5 I 1 I J In His Anger He Resorted to Drink him Sho fell upon him with all her force His head went back and struck he deck with a frightful crash She herself was almost stunned by tho violence of her own fall although his body broke It She arose and stood over him for a minute and then she lifted her foot and brought It down upon him He had said sho was a mad woman and It was true Sho was crazed by what she had heard by the horror of the situation She had not changed her dross for dinner that afternoon Sho was wearing a pair of light boating shoes It was lucky for him If she had worn evening slippers with high rigid heels she would have mashed his faco beyond recognition As It was she loft horrible marks upon It Ho lay absolutely motionless She could see that ho was still breathing and was not dead If sho had had n weapon sho might have killed him In the fury and transport of her rage This wretched philosopher As no resistance re-sistance came from him she presently pres-ently stopped tho fomlnlno in her slowly rising to the fore She realized now that the irrevocable irrevoc-able had happened that there was no longer room for two of them on that ship As the mists of passion cleared away although the flro of rage still burned In her heart her mind cleared also She thought with such rapidity as she had never thought before First she picked up a cloak threw it about her and wont on deck A cabin attendant was standing at the compan lanwny us was always tho case waiting wait-ing a possible summons She told him that his master was ill and did not desire to be disturbed lIe did not even want tho dinner things cleared away lIe wanted to bo left entirely alone until morning The servant smiled sllghjtly sho thought In the light from the cabin skylight She noticed that It was a moonless night cloudy overcast for she couldsee no stars She knew whrft that smile meant that tho man realized what sort of sickness his owner and master was liable to Sho bade him tell the olllcer of the deck her message and then dismissed him Then she returned to the cabin and carefully locked the door She glanced at tho man as she did so He lay just as he had lain before She bent over him lie was still breathing she noted with wns It egret Hut sho wasted no time over him Time was the most precious of all things to her at that moment She had n clear and definite plan of action She knew exactly what sho Intended to do and how she Intended to do It Fortunately tho means of escape es-cape were at hand They had passed ono or two tiny Islands during the day more treeless spots of sand or coral In the vast of the ocean but prospects that others more Inviting might bw raised had caused tho man to order tho power tender to bo got overboard This was a good substantial sub-stantial boat 15 feet In length biond beamed and built for heavy seas yet powerfully ongincd nitd capable of good speed By his direction the tanks had been filled and everything overhauled over-hauled so that It would be readiness for use limo sea was very calm and the gentle air scarcely raised a ripple on Its surface To save the trouble of hoisting It aboard again the tender had been left trailing astern at the end of 11 long l hue i It would be ready for Instant uso Sho would escape In that Sho know how to run the motor and how to steor tho boat She had done It many n time I Carrying her heavy boat cloak she I I entered her cabin hastily packed her i f Ste c = lSw She Believed That the Yacht Would Retrace Its Course bag with what things she fancied she would need returned to the table took from It every scrap that was edible and portable without much regard re-gard for the niceties she made It up In a heavy parcel which she tied with napkins She remembered that tho water tank In tho Hunch had been filled so that for a time at least she would lack nothing Carrying bag and bundle in her hands and with the boat cloak over her arm and a straw hat tied on her bend after one long look at the man she turned and went aft and reentered tho starboard after stateroom her own The boats painter had been affixed to the starboard side of the yacht She opened the stern window and looked out She leaned far out and by great good fortune In tho darkness caught the painter Tho boat of course was swinging to a long rope She pulled at this line cautiously although the effort taxed her strength to the utmost ut-most Indeed she seemed possessed of a fictitious strength for the time being else she never could have aCi compllshed her hard task Hut sho managed to get tho boat practical under the cabin at last She fjjstenei the painter to her bed which was of brass and securely screwed to the floor Then she cut off tho line and tied the bundle of provisions and her bag and cloak to the end of It Thoso l she dropped down Into the boat Among the potty articles was a sharp sailors sheath knife fastened to alan yard She slipped this lanyard Into her blouse Then she climbed up on tho port sill and essayed the dnngoroti descent herself She was glad Urn she was a strong athletic woman used to trusting to her own skill ani powers for It was no easy task to slide down that rope and got into a boat trailing along beneath the court tor of a yacht going peihaps 12 knot nn hour Fortunately tho engine was well aft and the how of the launch was high out of the water else hr weight would have 1 pressed it dcmr and tho back wash from the yacht would perhaps have swamped the launch At any rate she succeeded although after sho got her foot In the bows site slipped and foil But that she fell straight aft upon the clonk and bm dies she would have hunt herscIf so veroly If she had not fallen that way if she had pitched to the right or the loft sue would have gone oerboar and that would have bllI ea the Pmt I for she Knew 1 that slip u > uij hal i thl d rather than appeal to that bhu fsr the noise help She was fearful that of her fall might have attracted the attention of some ono on tho deck of tho yacht was usually but tho poop ually deserted at night and It was unlikely un-likely that any ono would be up there Scrambling to her feet sho drew her knife nnd severed tho taut rope that held the launch to the yacht It parted instantly She wag whirled backwards and sideways with a suddenness sud-denness that again almost threw her out of the boat For one agonizing moment mo-ment the launch lay full In tho broad beam of light that proceeded from tile bright cabin window sho had left For one agonizing moment of suspense she hung there and then the swirl of the wave carried her into tho darkness She lay directly In the wako of the yacht and the launch wns pitched up nnd down by the waves made by tho rapidly moving ship with a violence of motion that was sickening There were a pair of oars in the boat but she did not break them out She Just drew herself down in the stern sheets out lay there waiting Sho knew that the clatter of the motor could bo heard a long distance in so still a night andover and-over so still a sea and therefore although al-though her Impulse was to start it at once she restrained herself and waited watching tho yacht rapidly disappear dis-appear She could mark her course easily by the light from that cabin window Her ear was keen and she listened until sho could no longer detect de-tect the beat and throb of tho steamers steam-ers engines Then she rose and started the motor The boat was provided with a compass com-pass and although sho could see no star she was able to set a course which was directly at right angles to the course of the yacht She realized or at least she thought so that she would be pursued Sho believed that the yacht would retrace its course She decided that those aboard her would reason that sho would endeavor to put as much distance as possible between herself and tho yacht and therefore she would sail straight away from it Consequently she went broad off to starboard at right angles to the other course Tho gasoline tanks were both full Inasmuch as the boat had been designed for extended cruising in shallow waters there was enough fuel to keep the motor going for over 30 hours at full speed The motor was capable of developing at least ten knots per hour By the same time tomorrow night she would bo 240 miles away from the present spot Tho yacht was going 12 knots an hour Her escape would probably not be discovered discov-ered for ten hours By that time the yacht would be 120 miles away They would be ir 0 miles apart by morning morn-ing measured on the hypothetic and by night who could tell At any rate she had now done all that she could Her condition was desperate her prospects gloomy beyond expression She was alone In a small power boat which would bo helpless the sport of wind and waves after perhaps 30 hours That boat was alone in the great expanse of the Pacific ocean Somewhere about there were islands probably Indeed on the charts those seas were dotted with points of land but they were small Inconsiderable uninhabited unknown In that little boat she might pass close by many of them without seeing them She hat provisions such ns they were and water sufficient perhaps for a week or ton days After that unless she landed somewhere she would drift on until she starved nnd died If a storm came the launch probably would not survive it Her chances of escape In any event were worse than problematical problem-atical The end was almost certain Hut she was happy Tho first rea ray of happiness which had entered her soul since the beginning of the great awakening which had culminated culmin-ated In the frightful scene of the night Illumined her being As sho sat In the stern sheets her hand on the steering wheel listening to the steady drumming of the motor seeing tho black water broken Into foam by the boats bows flash by her keeping the launch steady on her course by the aid of the compass needle her eyes turned ever and anon to the fast diminishing di-minishing point of light which marked tho rapidly disappearing yacht and she realized that site was free She had hurled out of her path and how she exulted In her own prowess It was something of a salve to her soul for the wretched humiliations which had been heaped upon Itsho had hurled out of her path and stricken down as any other animal might have Bono him who had brought her to this awful pass She was away from him free Horn him Sho wns once more so far ns wind and wave allowed the master of her fate tho mistress of her destiny She was glad In her heurt too that there were to be no physical conso quenreH from her brief alliance she did not realize hat them wore to hi other consequences which not even all the water of the seas over which sho floated could wash out Thorn was a strnnge elation In her soul She felt as If In some way she had vindicated her rIght to ho There was something yet In her philosophy and did oppor unity serve could she get fret frolO the dangers that encompassed her she vowed that she would prove it All night Ionic she stayed awake foiling tho launch In her rourX When morning broke sh iv 1H ahKo mutely alone upon the otU lalHllng erect upon a st itt Horn I e low vnll I lug point hhe could bl nlllhllll but smoothly undulating sea She break fasted sparingly from her scanty store and resumed her post at the wheel She was tired and sleepy but while tho little engine was alive she could not leave it to its own devices She must hold on her chosen course as long ns the motive power remained She could not lose a moment while that motor throbbed and beat She must bo nllvo with it There would jo time to sleep when It was ex latistcd Sho must put as many leagues between her and pursuit by holding the direct course as long 33 was possible And so sho sat there grimly hands clutching the wheel through tho long day nnd through the longer night and well Into tho following morning it must have been half past ten on tho morning of tho second day before the motor stopped Tho silence after the ceaseless drumming of n night a long day a longer night and a still longer struck her with morning the same strange sense of shock She calculated that tho motor had been running for 38 bourn nnd that she had gone 380 miles at least on her course She had seen nothing whatever of the yacht The chances that it would pick her up even if It came about and cruised for her a lonely speck in the ocean were millions to nothing At any rate sho had done all sho could Her philosophy phil-osophy for once stood her In good stead There was nothing more to be i done She was dead for want of I sleep The sky had been slightly overcast over-cast since she had left the yacht but j there had been no storm and weather conditions looked just as they had and j seemed to bo permanent Taking the precaution to examine tho gasoline tanks and finding that indeed j In-deed they had been drained of the last I drop she carefully closed and locked I I them thereby assuring her salvation j nnd spreading tho boat cloak In the I stern sheets with her bag for a pillow j and her straw hat tied over her face to shield It from the sun she Instantly dropped to sleep CHAPTER VIII la Cast Up by the Sea Day was Just breaking again when t6 the woman awoke Reference to her watch which she had taken the precaution pre-caution to wind just before she retired re-tired disclosed the fact that It was four oclock In the morning She had slept unbrokenly since 11 oclock tlel morning before Her sleep had been L stupor of utter and complete exhaus Hon Added to tho tremendous physical physi-cal strain of keeping I awake and attending at-tending to the duty to which she ha enforced herself had been the furthei strain of the terrible events on th night In which she left the yacht an tho apprehension of pursultwhlch ha been continually with her Her firs f motion indeed wasto rise to her fee CU and scan the horizon With relief II nUl describable her scrutiny descovei nothing She was still alone NeitM lJ bam the yacht nor any other vessel many m-any smallest speck of land was si t ff houetted against the circling sky to j i She sat in the boat musing a 10 i time and then woke to the fact tt i y sho was hungry Again she satlsC SI i her appetite sparingly from her scat and rapidly diminishing store of Jo f it and drink and then putting the ps I i resolutely behind her hoping and p haps fancying by some exercise of 1tM will power finally she could put It 1 hand her forever she gave serlo fah thought to her condition She realized at lost that she ea the hands another would have II cilia of God sho said of chance The fI age that she waR so helpless that allfc t tae learning and all her training I miv her powers Thi all her skill nnd all Tnhg situation t of no avail made the const notK more galling Was there inkl that sho could do She renew Hass deeply and as sho did so fdia breezo sprang up She Judged tl aunt the period during which she had se ictua had been culm and still Any viol area have all 2Po locking of the bout would felt bitter ring sho Indeed ened her a st lain stiff from having cramped and e C long on the hnrd floor which only I g boat cloak thick amid heavy made DP a Mn tolorablo bed stln Init the breeze lime coming of lilted her ImnRlimtlon It was a g her f hI that It tie breeze She noticed she h whence from the direction If I como by her compass course OQ the only hud n sail of some Idl1llthe JI1 Sho would bo driven along She had heard m movo somewhere ta urn I and drift ocean currents items boat was moll doubted whether the or In a vote fast Bufflclontly J lit least dif eamat any mals to dollnito direction n Yo bomenv lien Utica Unless she got would slowly starve nnd die 1 forwa where sho was She stepped forward th oars T time boat nUll examined forward 0 was a sort of a deck thougbt I ENI tho tanks She gasoline she might makeshift witbhorarnt luC ha l-uC tho painter of which site 0 H1 of t h e good length to fasten one It ngalns S in an upright position vent I Thoro were bolts and rings of j varo r Sbo sorts on this little deck step time bundle of the ear A ev t If P cleats or ribs nt tho bottom 1 she wool n fo rrn TO BK CONTINUED |