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Show THE Thursday, June 24, 1943 H NEPHI. UTAH TIMES-NEW- 1PWA' ft BEN AMES WILLIAMS w.n.u. features CJWILLIAMS THE STORY SO FAR: Robin Dale, a young artist, goes to Moose Bay to see her fiance, Will McPhail. When WiU is accidentally killed, his brother Angus blames Robin, She goes to Angus' fishing cruiser to see him. While she is on board the boat sails, carrying her, Angus, Pat Donohoe and a cabin boy named When they Romeo toward Labrador. stop at the next port a man named Jenkins boards the boat secretly. After they sail again be seizes control with the help ol Romeo. Jenkins, caught running contraband alcohol, Is making a last desperate effort to escape from the government patrol. Pat, released to fix the engine, deliberately delays them. Now continue with the story. against hers, pulling her arms back over her head, pulling her backward against him. Pat Donohoe, fast to the ladder in the forecastle, was bel- lowing like a bull. Then she and Romeo were thrown backward into the forecastle by some staggering shock that brought the boat to an instant stop. A terrible smashing and splintering of breaking ribs and planking deafened her, and she heard the breath come out of Romeo with a grunt as she fell on top of him. Then water was gushing and flooding all around them. McPhail's boat sank about two minutes after she struck. She had CHAPTER XII run at full speed squarely into a that was too steep to allow In the late afternoon, when for ledgeto slide her up on it out of water, but the fifth or sixth time the engine that still sloped enough to hold her had been started, and Pat was once till her stern filled and pulled her more secured in his old position off and down. Mr. against the forecastle ladder, The ledge was some forty yards Jenkins took the wheel, while Ro- from the beach at the foot of meo, with a shotgun on his knee, the cliffs, shingle with water outside; kept guard over Angus and Robin in but inside it, thedeep water was shoal. the cabin. Romeo was beaming and Romeo was first to reach the beach. expansive, with no apparent sense The shock of the collision threw him of guilt for his treachery. He smiled and Robin's at Robin with a flash of teeth and and Robin backward, coming down on his stomach said something to her, and Robin weight his wind out. He made somewhat doubtfully answered his knocked queer hollow sounds, trying to catch smile and said carefully. his breath, fighting to sit up. He "Je ne parle pas francais." threw her off him, and Robin beat his back He laughed, throwing at him blindly with the knife, and off head, a great guffaw; he rattled something and she heard her own phrase twice or thrice repeated, and looked at Angus enquiringly. Angus told her, in expressionless tones: "Easy! Sit still. He's asking you to go with him. If he tries to touch you, he'll be near enough so I can jump him." She obeyed him, but Romeo, with a vigilant eye on Angus, the shotgun in his left hand, reached across the $ i f table to catch her arm. She leaned back away from him; and Jenkins, coming quietly through the door from the engine room, appeared at Romeo's shoulder. He caught the barrel of the shotgun with one hand, forced the muzzle up out of the way, jammed his pistol into Romeo's side. Romeo twisted his head to say something furiously over his shoulder; but he did not resist when Jenkins twitched the shotgun free. Jenkins came into the cabin, keeping Romeo in front of him. He drove the man forward into the engine room. Romeo shrugged, laughed again, kissed his hand to Robin and departed. They felt the boat heel as Romeo in the pilothouse brought it on its course once more. Mr. Jenkins, with a weapon in each hand, stared at Robin in a venomous perplexity. "Curse you!" he said. "I wish you were out of here." He said to Angus, querulously: "See what I mean? That Romeo's bound to fall for any girl he sees. You'd have jumped him in another second; and you'd have been dead before you The roar of surf was all about could finish your jump. He'll have them. us all killing each other before we're he squealed like a caught rat and through." After a little, Jenkins said: "I'd bolted up through the pilothouse to like to know where we are." His the deck. When the boat struck, Angus was tone was fretful. "I figure the wind would set us off to the southwest, on his feet in the cabin aft, facing mostly; and we've been drifting half Jenkins' pistol. The shock threw the time all day. How fast is this him against the cabin bulkhead; and it hurled Mr. Jenkins headlong into boat?" the engine room. Angus scrambled "About eleven." "You can't see fifty yards ahead to his feet and came at a run. jumpof you in this thick. We'll have to ing over Jenkins to Robin. By the slow down later, watch our step. I time he reached her, water was figure by midnight we'll be getting pouring in through the shattered toward shore." He asked Angus al- bow. Jenkins, without a sound, dartmost plaintively: "What do you ed past them and scrambled up into the pilothouse and disappeared. think?" Angus dragged Robin to her feet "You're the captain. It's your fuand shouted, "All right?" She stamneral." Jenkins' lip twisted as though with mered something, and he turned to sudden pain at that word. He free Pat. Pat's arms were fast to the steel uprights of the ladder; and "Go cook supscowled at Robin. Angus wrenched desperately at the per," he said shortly. She nodded and went past him into knotted cords till Robin thrust the the galley. She stood trembling and knife at him. "Here, take this!" she screamed, shaken, shivering, staring dumbly in front of her, wondering what to ashamed of her own voice so shrill cook. Bacon and eggs? She took the and high. Angus slashed at Pat's knife from its slot and began to slice bonds, and the lights went out, and the bacon. She was bitterly cold; under their feet the inclination of and she thought a hot drink would the deck increased as the boat setwarm them all, and found a tled by the stern. Angus shouted cake of cooking chocolate in some triumphant word, and then he the stores. When the bacon was fry- and Pat pushed Robin up into the When she came out on ing, she opened the wrapper at one pilothouse. end of the cake, preparatory to slic- the deck already steeply sloping aft, sleet stung her cheek, and the wind ing some thin flakes off the chocowas cold. Pat and Angus helped late. Someone caught her left arm and her forward along the slippery turtle twitched her around, and she saw deck; and they saw the ledge solid Romeo's laughing eyes and his and black under the bow, and Pat flashing teeth here close beside her. jumped down and turned to reach He had left the wheel, come down up for her. She was still holding into the forecastle, thus seized her that cake of chocolate. To free ber now. She jabbed at him blindly hands, she pulled up her sweater with the knife, and he recoiled and and stuffed the chocolate inside ber dodged; but then his bands like flannel shirt. Then Angus swung striking snakes caught both her her down into Pat's arms; and the wrists. She twisted desperately roar of surf Was all about them, and the wind blew cold and thin, and around till be was behind her. shouted He still gripped her wrists, holdsomething about Angus ing her hands up over her head, the freeing the small boat lashed in chocks on top of the cabin, and disknife in one of her hands, the chocolate in the other. Her arms were appeared back along the deck. The crossed by her own movement when sleet in her face blinded her and she twisted around. She could see Pat bellowed warningly: "Come away, sorrl She's going!" through the engine room Mr. JenRobin wondered stupidly who was kins in the cabin door. He had risen as though to interfere; but he was going where. Then the cruiser slid an inch backward off the ledge, and looking back into the cabin, his pistol levelled at Angus there, bis teeth six inches, and a yard. Robin bared. He shouted like a scream screamed, and Angus appeared tome word she did not hear; and, above them on the high bow and even pinned as she was. her hands jumped down and fell on his bands high in the air as though she were and knees on the ledge at her feet, a mutinous sailor triced up by the and she caught at him to keep him pefrom the water. The cruiser slid thumbs, she understood with culiar lucid clarity that Mr. Jenkins away from them off the ledge; she dared not come to help her for fear was a white blur in the black night Angus would take him in the rear. for a moment Then she slir under Romeo laughed in her ear, his bead and was gone. c- one-pou- They were left to face rain and bitter wind. The ledge on which they stood was a foot or two high, not ten feet long, water all around them, but there was a high blackness of land not far away. Angus held Robin's arm to steady her, and Pat waded off toward that blackness and shouted something to them. Angus stepped off the ledge into water to his waist, and turned his back to her and said: "Sit on my shoulders. Straddle that's right. Hold your feet up out of the water. Hold onto my head." As she obeyed, Pat returned, splashing through the water, to steady her. Carrying her on his shoulders, Pat behind him with his hands on Robin's waist, Angus waded toward the shore. When he came up out of the water, Pat swung Robin to the ground, and she could dimly see that they stood on shingle in a narrow cove against the face of a bold cliff. There was some turbulence of movement a few paces off, two black figures violent in action, and she heard panting cries, and one of the figures went down and screamed and Angus leaped that way to check the other, kicking at the fallen man. "Easy, Jenkins!" Angus cried. Jenkins said in a thick voice: "I'll kick his head in! He wrecked us!" "You'll hang as quick for killing him as anyone else." Romeo scuttled away, and Angus urged: "We've got to get up the cliff somehow. Tide will flood this cove. Kill him later if you want to, but let's get out of this trap first." Jenkins this time said nothing. Romeo had disappeared along the shingle beach. Angus found a fissure in the cliff to serve for their ascent, and he led the way with Robin on his heels, Pat close behind her. Robin heard Jenkins following them upward. They climbed fifty feet to a wide ledge with an angle that offered some shelter from the wind, and halted there while Angus sought some way to climb higher. While they waited, Pat backed Robin into the angle in the cliff face and pressed his body against hers to protect her from the wind and rain. Romeo came scratching up the fissure to join them, whimpering with metallic little sounds. "It's not safe to try to go on in the dark," Angus reported. "The ledge ends, one way; and it gets pretty narrow in the other direction. We'll stay here till morning." Jenkins said: "We will not!" "Suit yourself," Angus told him. "We're staying here." He came to Robin. "Pat and I will keep you as warm as we can," he said. "He sat down with his back against the cliff face. "Sit between my legs," he told her. "Lean back against me." She obeyed him. "Now, Pat, you sit down between her legs and lean back against her. There, Miss Dale, you're the ham in the sandwich." She loved him for joking in this moment. "Put your legs around Pat, your feet in his lap. He can keep them warm with his arms. I'm your mattress, he's your blanket. Pat, when you get cold, you and I can change places." Jenkins demanded: "What about me and Romeo?" "Get as close to us as you can," Angus advised him. "We'll keep each other warm." Jenkins tried exploring the ledge on his own account before he would be satisfied; but Romeo huddled down beside them, and so presently did Mr. Jenkins. They pressed together like puppies on a cold night, seeking to conserve the heat in their bodies against the penetrating cold. Romeo whimpered beside them, huddling closer. She thought she did not sleep, till she opened weary eyes and saw a dawn that was only grayness breaking through a veil of rain. They were all so numb with- - cold that they were inert as snakes in winter. Angus stood up and beat his arms for warmth; and as the light increased he worked along the ledge toward where it narrowed dan gerously. They watched him tor pidly, till fifty feet away he turned and called: "Come on! We can go this way.' moved sluggishly. Pat They helped Robin to her feet Her legs were stiff and cramped, and she ached all over. She and Pat joined Angus, and he showed them a wider ledge six feet below this one on which they were, wblch led to a broken slope of rubble up which they could ascend. Robin stumbled after Angus, Pat on her heels. 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