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Show ' j ; i " I BY GEORGE HORTON OorrpjTighUd, 1900, bj"n BobbvHrri21 Cnprar cUt a. monk- "ftSnS H. hunt on with- will, nd Jn of the veaaei hor Into tf Jt h. lammd th window toand rv " fw frantic VhlrU th -ciw. 2flrtJ to mak It c.trh ?r2r 1 to which he could bold. H window and rolled to the floor. wta reated on hand. nr to limbe piad out TT-'7 " lie hi keep hlm.elf from roWn i?ut-,,4i t too .took of the t,t!?T, had come In to drench hlm .th?T27 and to wt hi. blanketa a taa. but not suffi :ent to flood the floor or the h"Whw:" h, exclaimed. 'Thitwuj narrow e ,. I mlM vrv ea-lly hava eunk the hij that way! I cloeed thai porthole In rt nick of tlm. He cor.clu.1M. aa It no 'onr tlcable to h..., freah air. to vr Now that ti - porthole wa C-Vl tokening tnlor from the emigrant quar ten tmmedl.vv made lt.elf to "There Isn't wind enough In heaven to blow that n,.-ll away for good. concluded con-cluded HaMv. . . twimA .n He rrawle.l -o the door and tried to open It. hut. to hi. .urprlM. found " looked. r-unded on It and .1 a it. M bur to no ava l Thl discovery In him again e aen.e danr, ijd the face of Ai.w.. as he had thJ" dream In the rain, took shape r" eves of hU , ..mory. Seising "" of the doo, ... threw hi. entire weight axalnat it ,,v.-al times. 'uh ',,5" tlon of r,reaki-.K it In. but. to hi. It offerp.1 u:t.vpoted resistance As n stood thus, srf! holding to the knob and wondering he had cn!nJ r.f " oner, there w. a horrible grinding grating grat-ing sound. r.hlp shuddered a. though wounded to death. ndf ha .tern rose high In the .md remained thus. Hard knew this f'.., the fact that he was now lying on ' 1 ,l..or. against which, a moment mo-ment ago. :e had been leaning The grinding .nued. ?ctoruVaP ? v buVnps and ..Mings. giving him er much the .t.. sensation that he had on. e cxper .vl in a building that was being shak.-., hv an earthquake. Tne wave;, over ..!ch he hfUi but now been leaping :.,K free strides, ttindefl against ::h terrific and angry i"- -M uasped Hardy. we have run up.-i . k and I shell be drowned here hk- a r in a hole, if they do ;.. lt me .' Open this dour. Heilo. tyen I r ' i " . He t'n: Inued 1 CHAPTZS V. At the Mercy of the Waves. The crew of the Shlkoku Maru consisted con-sisted of five persons; the captain, the engineer and three sailors. They wpre the first filthy, unkempt Japanese that Hardy had seen. One of them, a shock-headed shock-headed boy, who seemed to have brought to sea with him all the smells of Chinatown, China-town, came and stood by the American's side and gaxed Into his face with Insatiable, Insati-able, devouring curiosity. Hardy was watching the twinkling lights of the town and fhtnklng of Atsome. with whom be had been thrown so brief a time, yet who had played such a large part In his life and left such an indelible Impression on his memory. Yes, he had known her but two days, yet he would carry away a more vivid recollection of her than of many other people with whom he had ben associated for yeara. He wondered If she were really In love with him. or only touched by the compliments he had paid her. which, under the circumstances, she could not help knowing were sincere. "Women are the same the world over." he soliloquised, "they like flatten', different dif-ferent races are distinguished by yellow and red and white and black akins. but there are no race characteristics to mark the feminine heart. Yet. when I say 'flattery' 'flat-tery' I am perhaps doing an injustice, for it was the evident sincerity of the compliments compli-ments I paid her which made such an impression im-pression on Alsome." The light grew dimmer. He was. Indeed, In-deed, leaving tehlnd the teeming millions of Japan, with its hates and its love.. its traditions. Its policy. Its statesmen. Its nohlemen and its heggar. Its sorrows and its Joys, its hopes and Its heartaches. He took a deep brtath of the sea wind and sigh ed. "Old Emery was right," he mused, "the thing for me to do was to get away and befltn again. One's own grief seems small when he pees how hig the world is. when he comes to realize that his particular ache Is ntilv a dr" In the threat ,ean of human misery. I sr.all prohably neirr In mv life meet another person who ha as a terrier shakea a rat. Hardy remembered remem-bered that this was an emigrant ship, used for carrying Japanese and Korean laborer, across to Russia. The hold, he had noticed by the light cast by the lantern, lan-tern, was fitted up with rows and rows of wooden bunks, placed one above the other. "Whew!" he exclaimed, "that horrible smell eoses In through the partition. Such an odor would make me sick on solid land." He had too much pride In his seamanship seaman-ship to admit that the motion had anything any-thing to do with his nausea. "I must have air," he muttered, "fresh air." There was a porthole on either side of the cabin, and he scrambled up to on of these; with considerable difficulty he managed to turn the screw and to throw open the circular glass window. The .sweet breath of the sea Immediately came whistling In. and he held his face for some minutes to the window, taking long, deep drafts of It. The moon waa shining and he could see a vast expanse of tumbled waters, black as ink.' One moment he was looking at them from an apparently great height, and the next the long swash of the waves washed the side of the hull but a foot or two below the porthole. He climbed down. "That has blown the smell out of here already." he muttered. "I'll wairant this place hasn't tee:i ventilated lefore In yeArs. Now for some sleep.'' He lay down again on the blankets and soon dosed off. He was awakened a second sec-ond time by a cold stream of water, spouting full upon him with terrible force, lie Jumped to his feet, onlv to he thrown sprawling. The little vessel, wnlch was light, was rolling from rail to rail, and the water had roughed in through the opened porthole. A sudden fear that the ship would founder and that he would be drowned. coopd up there in the cabin, seized him and he leaped, clambering, f'-r the porthole. T" was not far ;ilm hip-, but ere he could tea-li it. it was below him and he was thrown toward Ir reviving reviv-ing a second water sj.o.r full in the face, drenching him to the skin. H i' he wa- heard of Marart Mannorf. and her her flrklnci.." He .ailed lir Marg.i'e' Manti'w. though th tho;phi Thai 51.0 n a. urn now Margaret Sunderland gave him a wremh. But h had aiiMdv ia.'hrd th Vas hii oiip realizes thf on" in cnevlng after nomethinit thai ha never eiied. In this case It was the Idealized. nt trv fl' tual. .Margaret, ard he was Therefor far on the road inward fn'fret f 'ihi.-s a"d recovery. Ho felt uncomfortable now and noti. ed 'hai the .lapmiose hov was s'lil standing by his side, staring a: him. He wanied to he nione. "Go way.'' he said. "tak yourself off'" The bov did not move Hardv polnied and made n posture that ouid not he nisurderstood The boy retreated a step and srowied angrilv. Hardy seized him by the shoulder and ftave him a push. "Get on abouT your business!" he commanded com-manded "You annov me The boy's flsis doubled and hl.s lips flew bark from his tee'h He Took a s'en forward for-ward t hreaienlngly and looked The American Amer-ican Impudently in the ee Then, mu'-tering mu'-tering angrily, he turned and ..;kM awav rapidly. "Thev re a spunky ra-e. If thev are 3'! like that fellow." though! Hardv. ' Perhaps, Per-haps, if I had remained longer In Japn. I should hae amended n v first in pressings pres-sings of the i-ountrv They are spoi'iig for a war with Russia, eh 1 Weil. Russ'a will eat them up and I' s a pltv. for -hey are oe'rtaln'y the mos ph-t tiresq u people on the face of the glob " The ligh's grew fewer, fiding in the dis'an-e ore hv one "It imgh' he as well." mused Hi-dv. ' to make mvse'f a agr-wh'e as pos?ih'e j to these .laps I am alone with 'h:v :m the middle of the sea. and 1 heard rumors 1 In Yokohama that, despite their e i r . politeness, thev ha'e all tVa sla r s J'e.- 1 haps Aisome but no. s-e cer'al'v w is fin ere T wonder where Neville l now " The American felt In his hip po. k' a1 i wa comforted hv the cold touch -' his . revolver handle The reflection -ha' "e . was one of the mos' famous a-na'eir i Fho-s tn America give him a d'st'n-' 1 fehng of securiM He was cot.s.- i I Of a S"T! of ding' he could 1'v ! Whv w h !'.. he . n Ted no' O'll'e sh ' fv h , IV ,-Aeetion that U' h a feelme whs n' I lira o man situated is he fo-;nd hi- lf at t fce prr5n' moment 1 Tie lights were -h1! gone nw Thi" I ope yonder, at which he hv1 been gating so r.c and which d'd no- T-Je was a ( star he was qure sure He turr.ed ard . walked forwa'd to where the cap-am ju talking wrh one o' the sn'o-s. an-1 indicated, indi-cated, bv laving his cheek op rvs open palm, t.hat he was sleepy and w-o-;ld like tn go r'-. bel The cap'a.n. w'-h s idder ,-omrrehensii'n and miinv p uT.r er) : gen-,r of politeness, led him to a hi'- h : lr't raised the door Ha-dv saw a 'adder and as much of the dark, roomv hod a a 'anTern hanging from a ream c0 1 d ii' imirate The captain went down the 'adder and Hrd- '""wl Hid he ben arl to sp-ik .Iiparese. or 'o make hlm-, hlm-, n 'nr-' (v underyoo.i h nwiM i "3e ohle.-.d to Sleeping be'ow. wou'd i h'v. e exp'a:ned fha- h- preferred to wr cp hnjicif m a b'anket nni r(.rrair on de.-k where te air w-as purer Bu' he remembered remem-bered hi? experience wl-h 'he bc.. and did no- tb.nk 1' best rt her ' o a r tagon 1 ze these men In whof power he so rom-plete'- W is The 1 a p a 1 n ' 00 k down the ' a r. ' e r r and opened 'he door Tne clr.m ir'" which he led the Vav was nearly semi .'l-cnav In shape as I' was hc-'.ded hv a pi'tl-tor. pi'tl-tor. across the h'l'i and 'he wiiV of !. ship's sTe-n A ciasriiof.e.1 div an extended in a semi- ire'e aro-md the rea- end. ihfr- was a carpe- on 'he fl.yr and fur-nHuie fur-nHuie :n 'he form of a -able . er which was iiwiini! 1 dining rf k and .1 couple of chairs The c.t-v,n tna.!- an ir.c'u-sle ir.c'u-sle hospital gesture, a tr.p.inied hv a . low salaam Hard', s mi"d uas -iieved "They evidently think They ir- glvlntr me the hos' thev nive." ::e tn- iuded. "I was a little rough wl'i 'h- !-.y up There, hut I never could en !r- being stared at He regretted now his rWmg distrust of Alsome. whose dw kiss and faint, flower. 'Ike fragrnn. lingered wltn him as ,1 momnrv of ex.iUlsiTe .1 ,1 in t ir ess. The capialn sail sorr e-hir.g t it sounded like Yukkutl. closed the Joor anl was gone "I'm not (csvi to he very oomfor.a-hle oomfor.a-hle here." thdgnt Hardv. as he s it down on the upholstered divan He w is dlrertlv over the crew, whh h shook e Ht'ie vessel at this pol"- " though I. would shake It Into piece?. The stern, too had an unpleasant wav of rising out of the water, causing him for the moment to fee as though he were dropping from a far height. He took considerable pride in the face that he was nor easi-k "I -I've done too much sailing on my own vatch to lt a little thing like this knock me out," he muttered. bu I 'I lUo 10 see Johnnv Fnrjeon here Farleon's extraordinary capacity for seasickness had always been n source of , amusement to Hardy. Th,. dnan looked . omfort.lhle. so he lav dow:n on It and composed himself for sieep He woke up aov.;T an nou- later on the floor The wind was using and the Increased plunging of the boat had rolled him from his couch. He spread his blankets on the floor and lay down on them, where he soon became aware as he was now thoroughly awake, that the cabin was filled with a sickening odor reminding him. as had the proximity' proxi-mity' of the curloua hoy shove, of the smells of Chinatown. The stern of tne hip was going UP &nd down like a child s ) ee-saw. onlv It attained prodigious heights and depths. When it arose out of the water the screw whirred viciously Mi vainly In the lr, shakln the cabin I |