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Show aimisi - .pw s. iiii pi a ""lorry, msdsms. but with your per mission snd he picked me up as essttv as 1 could lift Barbara and laid ma down, carefully In tha bottom of tha boat, wit another "pardon, madams," ha hoaad my mouth. Over hla shoulder I caught a gllmps' of the cliff- I f unclad I could asa a fnrrr . moving slong the edge of tha cellars' a form that stooped Kuke's! Then a bandage was slipped aver nve I eyes and ths lend was sh"t out. I had corns to tha snd of tha wortdTben I might Just ss well justify ttartoy Im-i-! mer's boast about me. I would keep' j things stirred up until ths last minute! ' No sens at sll In fainting; as movls heroines do whan caught by villains t Though gaggad and blindfolded. I still ' had senass I could was for my Informs-tlon. Informs-tlon. My fingertips, touching tha stds of the boat, told ma It was made of o11d , ranvss. II k a the collapelbl eanoea the I or 1 mar hoyft uaed to take ta) tha north Woods. Krom tha rise and drop of tha boat. knew We wars crossing ths swells a t rightangles. Then ws must bs headed south. In tha afternoon had noticed that the line of the swslls ran eaet and wst. Ws must, then be heeded straight for nowhere. On a eouthsrly eoursa tho nearest Und could touch, would be near the south pole. (To bs continued.) Copyright, I!, by the Newspaper En--jjjaaajasajjjj''- -nmnr-Hm CHAPTER XXXVI. I Cams ta ths End of My Wertd, but Held an ta My aenssa. "Oott In Hlmmal!" muttered tha little ntan. "A skirt'' addod ths tall msn although, very plainly, a skirt waa eiactly what I lacked, "foitii down out of there, little one!" Mors gutturals from ths short msn ware perhsps a warning that for ths tlm. at least, I ought to ha treat ad with rapact, for they took off their caps politely. po-litely. 'lie member shs's seen everything. growlad the big man .clapping a hand over my mouth. "Hut a woman. In this place, at this hour ahe mlaht be one of us." The little man spoks Frrllh and watched ths sf fact of his words on maw "No women ars n ims game. That's orders. irriers bs d d. There's always a woman somewhere spoiling orders." "This ons will not. We've got ta keep her. She ll open up hall If wa let her go " "Tou mean we'll take her with us? It's you who'll open hell. If you do. Hustla up snd best It. Help bring her slong. Ws can decide about her lp the boat." "And the ocean's deeper, too, aJfttlS way out," said ths short man. X 1 mot Ion ad them that I wanted aoms-thing. aoms-thing. Of courss they thought 1 wlshad to speakhut 1 couldn't have uttered a sound I manage. hftS7Wr, to ROtnTTo my ha thro ha on the sapde snd le t'ttta msn brought It and plaoed It around my shoulders. Thtn ths big ons spoks In tha voloe nf an rfurat Atf til an. |