Show I 1 f X SUNDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 5 1915 1915 NEAL OF THE NA vi By William Hamilton Osborn Osborne Author of Red Mouse Running Fight c I w BI Blue ue B Buckle r uc i kl e E Etc r- r Novelized Fro From the Photoplay of the Same Na Nan Produced by Pathe Exchange Inc 1 Copyright 1915 1015 b by Willia Hamilton Osborne I 1 I CHAPTER IV After a Night of Fear The three men men and his two companions sat companions sat dejected in their bad badly leaking boat boal and amid watched Captain Hardins Hardin's vessel fade rade away awny into the distance Hernandez watched her keenly as she Into the innermost of or his mind recesses ho tucked away ay the lie fact tact that she was the steamer Princess of ot New York Some day that knowl edge would be of or use to him him Hot brushed against check cheek some rested on his shoulders lie Ho shook himself like some sonic huge lingo mast mastiff er lIe Ho seized the tho oars Come he ho said weve got to get sel out of or this this and and right away This boat Is 18 filling filling- fast tast Go to it senor said Hernandez Row It was not a request It was a com corn mand It was a strange thing that as long as had borne the thc child In his arms Illington had been the lender leader of the three Now his independence in in- dependence seemed to leave him He lIe was distraught His calculations cal had all aU been set a awry wry The Injunction of Hernandez ho lie welcomed with relief relict He bowed his lila head on his hiB chest and laid to with a will He Ho looked neither to the right nor left He Ho forgot the presence of or fernandez Hernandez sitting in lii the stern he forgot Ponto sitting in the bow His thoughts were with Annette Aminette Illington his child sailing north ever north north north- steaming always away awny from him He did lid not realize that Ponto was feelIng feel feel- Ing cautiously of his hip pockets pockets- much as a Now York detective frisks a n. gunman gunman he he didn't see Ponto raise his pointed knife twice or thrice In air air didn't didn't see Bce the warning heart head shake of fernandez Hernandez In the stern He was brought to himself by an exclamation matlon mation of at Hernandez a a cry of or alarm Look out senor cried Hernandes Hernan Hernan- dez des trim your our boat She comes His Injunction was too late A huge tidal wave swept them up eight feet ten feet ten feet teet toward the heavens anti and then dropped them a far greater distance toward the bottom of ot the sea Their boat was WIlS' WIlS swamped The three men struggled in the water kept his head Once more he took command You can hot both swim he shouted In clear cool tones Do as I say and Ill I'll get et you out of ot this Under his direction they seized him under the tile shoulder nit pit of or each armand armand arm armand and hold held him steadily and then ll II Ii- hington accomplished the impossible He seized the submerged rowboat and with some superhuman trl trick k of mind and muscle capsized her full fun of at water as she was and then lifted her somehow In an instant from the surface of or the sea and sot her right She Sho floated on hor her bottom without a 1 aquart aquart I quart of water in her Ponto and Hernandez fernandez climbed to their places while Illington steadied the boat then ho he crawled back to his place and seized tho the oars once more I We Ve got Jot a n new lease of life lite he I said Bald whatever that means We Ve cannot cannot can can- not go back to Martinique Where else can we go 7 Hardly hall hail lie ho finished speaking when hien Ponto crossed himself and pointed to the westLand westLand west westLand Land senor senor land land looked then themi picked u up his oars and rowed like mad For hours ho lie rowed rowed rowed-he he forgot he wa waa was wasa a human being His oars rose and amid I fell tell with the regularity of ot machinelike machinelike machine machine- like movement Suddenly Hernandez Hernan dez spoke Careful senor he lie commanded Behold the surf He lie was quite right They Thoy were crossing some bar well ivell off oft the shore Before they knew It the they were in tn the midst of or a tumult of or wind driven angry angry an gry waves Ponto shrieked A wave towered high above them and tell fell with thunderous thud upon the tho bottom bot hot tom torn of their boat She went under once again I Come Como on cried Illington a hand handon on each of of my shoulders shoulders Ill Ill I'll take you safe sate a ashore hore Half Halt an hour later tater tho the three men muon staggered out of or tho time battered surf and sank sanle down exhausted upon a a. a strip of or beach Ponto Polito pointed in tho the I distance I Look senor he lie cried time the n night I g I 1 t I falls faUs Look at old Pelee look Pelee-look look at at Martinique I Hernandez Hernandes glanced wearily but 1 t hington failed to respond He Ho lay ay supine su mw I pine upon time the beach deep in tho the slumber of exhaustion Ponto drew his knife and pointed toward the tho sleeping man Wearily Hernandez fernandez shook his head hoad Theres alway always time friend Ponto Pon Ponto to let us sleep ho lie said Dawn broke with still BUll sleeping heavily Ponto was the time first to wake He shook Hernandez placing his finger on his lips flandez sprang sprang- up with the tho a n panther He collected his facu in an Instant He placed his 1 I upon the shoulder of or the tho slee sice man and shook him i Wake Vake senor he commanded rIa day ilay woke He stared a him heavy still with slumber 1 i I flandez shook him once again 11 II ton stretched his lila brawny arms ya yawned Senor said Hernandez fernandez sha Yes returned Illington Senor went on Hernandez fernandez us resume our conversation url our of ot yesterday Where Is s this thia island 1 He thrust his face race Into face race of or And where demanded is the silk oil pack Where also added Ponto le ip b bag a o or of gold smiled So you 1 I searched arched me have you he lie Well well youre you're welcome anything you find He lIe feet ce rose to Come on he lie comman cornman were we were re marooned Im I'm hungry us see what we can find Hernandez caught Where Is him by the tho i the packet m an ded ho he I And here thero is the tic gold 1 persi Pon Ponto to Illington smiled Both trav north he lie answered with Am Ani They are arc confided to care I And why asked Hernandez fernandez Illington shrugged his shout I III 1 thought you and amid I and Ponto were booked for or death that's Who knows knows we we may still be bo ho for death fernandez Hernandez glanced significant Ponto Some Sonie of us may he Come on said Illington t are mussels those on rocks yoi 01 Follow me He strode into the water waded toward a patch of rocky beyond Ponto seized a bit of jagged s v that lay hay upon the beach He Hernandez fernandez waded after nUnS Once on the time rocks Illington sloe slot and tore huge shell fish from t t moorings with his lila naked hands he lie did so Ponto In tn a sudden fr lifted high the billet in his h hand handi nd i brought it il with a crashing blow c d dupon upon the head of Illington fell like a log He Hei de des dez sprang at Ponto and shook as a terrier shakes cs a rat You fool he cried what d do gain by this J Walt Waft exclaimed Pon Ponto to c era cPa Illington with his clutching ta talet tal I Ilet let us search him thoroughly 4 The search yielded nothing them Fool Foot repeated Hernandez have done a useless thing Tb Th always time I tell you ou To he be continued tomorrow |