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Show UOV-MYTEY-ADVENTURt By Jl'LEI MART. I WHO'S' WHO I TI1K STOSy. I1ZI beautiful youNi annual wainer. ,h, !,. Ii. but haa k n "1 di.llrawd hi life t aavlng Bie lin b., II.-r. el noising 1 gala po.wJ.cn ot II.. r'l H . torlu.ie. To lu II... I.. i.iat '-of '-of the three helie. T.J .I ,h'""' ... - AIII.K and TINE. ym b"X nd'rJ; he ha captured aftyr li...r... ' from dath in Sib.rla. H. ia aided by a Band of liiun b.nd.t. ana by i.AlVO liK. who uain.d I.Im the waya f ciiii". It i . . In, I H X'lHAN, alao aa ex-cr:mlnBl. A"" tlcurate l.mWflc breaks lata im n. in la.la during the niKht B'.le alia to " . dr the inlJr.c ol tno op." " hHh he Haa .,..ieu--l..l l.tr K sin.,ke M that ! con icii -art Uinrgee. Zll l "' !; l.a.loria vosea a l.m 'or di.uany: i I follxw. in i automobile, raa O.oisaa m , eu ai. -.ha. CHAPTER LXXXII. THE CABIN ON Till BEACH. j Ziil had not long to wait. Tha "Morhl- haa" Boon swung aiounu tha point o Aitnteno. painteu while o tnal it could . be teen .n tha f af . "-"d ' tlttl qua I of I'ort Navalo. almost at her fact, 'infra were only a dustti uasaengora on her deck". Ule othera havuiic wen , aropued at tha varioua landa and ina i vanoua lalanda during tha morning. Mut among thus on board Zm recog- f l.lf.'d one, ahe aaw only on l.udovic. I Tr- wa TPnntng taielfssl'.1 vn Ilia eal, I tired bv Um monotony of tha long croaa- , "lsl climbed quickly to ber feat anil ! rail towarda tha landing. Whe waa Ui ; tune to aee I.uuovic o.ambara. e.garut 1 la hand, and ha actually rubbed peat her without noticing her. lie aakrd no qui.auon4 as to dlrectlona, j Lut delilratly, ilka a man who knew where ha waa going, eirollcd aiong towarda tha bare down above Ina cillia. . atrollt-d after him. ! Unoa. when ha healtated and turned ' around. Zui had thrown heraelf flat Into a little fold In the ground b.lde the load, and, aa ha gasrd back, tni down ; waa once mora emuty, devoid of any hu- j nan prcence. Tha little fold In the ground followed ; cloeoly along tna cliff, and 2ul followed ltf walking at the lioilori and occaaloual- ly climbing tha bank to aea thai her j man waa atill In alglit. ! liut ruiallv her alifiter came to an and. . merging into the flat plain around It. It waa neceaaary to go ooetily. rlua came I from her cover and gaaed oen-eed over I l he vaat plain of .hurt graaa airelcliing to : the farti.eat honaon. And ehc might wail r kaze, for ahe aaw bo one. I iudovlc had diAaieared. It waa aa If no had been awaliowad Into tha uowela j tt tna earth. 1 Xial thought. "Thrra muat ba not far )ff aom hiding place or other where . lounny waa walling for hlrn:" itut wniira.' Vual avrt .' It waa a! arky coaat with clirfa and bouldrra, I wma washed by the ara and othera dry, I ixcept ' timea of the a.veral atorm. I A'ero they In aomo abandoned hut? bite uld aea none anywhere. Or lather, to avoid prying aara, were hay not holding their interview in the .pen plain where th. y might be aeen, but I elves could see equally well? ThemovvQr 6nwUB TnTtinai precaution inttl ah cam to another llttl ravitia eadlng at a gentle slope down toward 1 bay In which th aea roared and boiled, k'hls she followed and was soon on a tandy shore. It had rained the night x-for and lh aaud waa alitl wat and trm. And ther suddenly ah perceived foot-narks, foot-narks, two sets of tracks. One was of a in pair of shoes, narrow and trim, with 1 heel that aunk cleanly Into the sand. 7he other was of a bar foot, a hug foot, he foot of a giant. "It's they," ah thought, "and they'ra lot far off. But where?" Hhe took off her sabota, and. In order hat her own tracks might not show, ah trpped carefully with her little feet willing willi-ng th marks left by th great naked ines. A hundred yards further on she sudden-y sudden-y perceived a rude cabin of planks and lanter, half rotted In the dampneaa and i)f torn to pieces by the wind, truly nor like an Ill-kept stable than the shl-er shl-er of human beluga. But Zisl felt, at-nost at-nost Instinctively tnat It waa ther they nun be. The cabin stood on a high pile of rocks, h bottom of which waa washed by the ea. Zlst knew ahe could not approach l directly. Through the cracks In th 11. If not through the open door or ;indow, she knew ahe would be quickly een by any occupant a. The two m-n ould become auaplcloua and would leave, tut the girl wanted to reach that cabin see and to hear. She waa atcll and trottg, and since childhood she had ben ccuatomed to violent exerctae, through hote aa well as through th discipline of he circus. Hhe realised that th only way to reach t was by climbing the rocks In the rear, bettering heraelf In every crack and ranny. It meant risking a terribl fall f a hundred feet upon th sharp points f th granlt rock a, but aha wa deter-lined deter-lined to try. Kh kid her sabots beneath a tuft of Tier on th down and dropped down to he very edge of th sea. where the spray nvered her wtth an Icy rain. And then. T prodigies of strength and agility, ahe egan to work hemelf upwards, raising 1 eraelf by her hands, dropping from one j tone to another, sliding across narrow penlngs. Feet end hands were torn and feeding when at laat ahe arrived beneath great shelf of granlt and atopped to pet. Hhe eould hear voices. Th cabin waa n top of this shelf. Kh had succeeded, he tried to Helen, but the words wer on fused, hh could hear only an Indefi-Ue Indefi-Ue murmur, ho with her little hands h gripped th edge of th ro k above er. Hh hauled herself up. got her knee vt r the edge, and was just aoout to It nib on and crawl towards the cabtn rhen ah heard a door, squeaking Vlo-ntly Vlo-ntly on runty hinges, opening on the id of th cabin towards the down, and tstlnctly this tlm aha heard th Vole f LaUdovIo saying: "I heard a noise!" Tomorrow Facing Death. |