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Show PAGE SEVE5T BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930. "Please leave me," the said. "I want The MuUnu of the J Albatross 0. half-close- beary-Ildde- d Ebe had never been able to rid herself of It . . . Women, she toM by Wyndham Martyn COPTBIQHT 1ST THB WND Barrio to be alone." When the door was shnt she looked down at the white face. There be lay, who bad trampled her heart In the dust; who had sntlsried her ambition for a little while, and then given her so targe a measure of onhapplness. She wondered why, as she gazed at the eyes, she had not long ago shaken herself free of him. She supposed It was because of his dominance. Such dominance as his had captured a girlish fancy and herself wearily, are so different from men. Less gross, or more stupid . . . which was it? When she rang the bell It was for Captain Hallett she sent 1. CHAPTER VII An Ocean Tragedy Bettlngton was glad when he entered the main saloon next morning for breakfast that Radway was not there. He rather dreaded that false, heartiness and he was not anxious to have to be amiable toward a man whose qualities he despised. "Radway Isn't up yet." It was Clements' voice. He had not seen the steward steal to his side. "lie doesn't answer when I knock." Bettlngton put down his cup. He ould swear trouble brooded In the other' eyes. "Think It's anything serious I" pre-prandi- Too know yon were frightened of I bis condition last night, doctor. 's think you'd better find out If wrong." door was locked, but Radway's Clements had a master key. Betting-to- n closed the door behind him. He bad seen enough in one brief glance. Elgar Radway was dead. It was plain, even to Bettington, that he had been dead many hours. The twojmen looked at one another and said nothing. To Bettington the thing seemed the hand of Providence. It meant that the Albatross must put about and run New York. It meant that the tw" women would never know the peril In which they had been placed. Evelyn was now doubly safe. Safe from the violence and cruelties of the dead man, as well as from the lusts of Clements' crime crew. "This means ruin," Clements said slowly. Bettlngton shrugged his shoulders. -What will be, will be." "A fool's creed!" cried Clements. "Was that what you felt in San Quentin? You know It wasn't or you would never have killed a guard in order to escape. The only death which will ever beat me will be my own." "Mrs. Radway must know," Bettington reminded him. Clements nodded. "All right. It comes better from you." Bettington found her on deck. "Have you seen Mr. Radway?" she asked. He thought there was an air of coldness about her, an aloofness that was strange. Evelyn Radway, although all vestige of affection for her husband had long since disappeared, was actuated by what she felt to be duty to him. She had realized with a start that her life on board would have been unutterably dreary without Doctor Walte. She vf& conscious of a quickening of her tfcyea when he was with her and a loneliness when he was away. Even after schooling herself to be cool. Indifferent and aloof, she could not help being glad when Howard Bettlngton came to her side. Few girls marry their ideals; she had not But she recognized in the ship's surgeon, as one sees an old and almost forgotten face, the man she hv Idealized before she set ambition above love. "It is about him I want to speak." "You mean he is 111?' she cried. He bowed his head. "Oh," she cried. "You mean he Is any-thlng- sv "How soon can we get back to New York?" she demanded wlien he had recovered from his astonishment at the spectacle. He considered a moment "I'm afraid we won't get there In time. I mean," he said In confusion, for he had a natural delicacy at such a moment, "we may have to bury him at sea." "Very well," she said, "I will lave And Captain Hallett you complained that Mr. Radway did not give you complete charge. I shall remedy that. Tell the steward to come to the library." She looked with the utmost distaste at this small grinning man. "I have told Captain Hallett," she said quietly, "that he has absolute control now." "Hasn't he been captain heretofore, madam?" Clements returned. "You know what she means," Hallett said fiercely. "I don't want to speak disrespectfully of the dead, but Mr. Radway was too easy with you. He gave you authority you hadn't any right to, and Mrs. Radway is taking that away from you. Isn't that what you mean, ma'am?" it in your hands. "Exactly. You understand, Mr. Clements?" "I fear I do not. madam. Captain Hallett suffers from an Inability to think clearly or correctly. You will Invariably find such characteristics with his type of skull. He is narrow and prejudiced and seems my enemy although I have tried to help him." "Help me!" Hallett snorted. Clements still addressed his remarks to Mrs. Radway. "With your permission, madam, I will announce Captain Hallett's promotion to the men. It will amuse them." "Please let us have no violence," Radway said sharply. She had seen a baleful light in the captain's eye and had noted the clenched fist and the step forward. "I'll attend to him later," Hallett said, breathing hard. "I hope you will do nothing of the sort," she said. "Personally, I have witnessed none of the slights you refer to. I have only noticed that you are uniformly uncivil to Doctor Walte and never lose an opportunity to Mrs. speak 111 deck Captain Hallett was already asserting himself. He stopped squarely before Bettlngton, who was paring up and down. "A word with yon," he said per: fniptnrlly. "I command this ship, and I'll ive no plotting or Insubordination "Quite right" said Bettington mildly. "I was talking to Mrs. Radway awhile back, and I said that you and yur pal, the steward, were two of a kind." "I am always sure ef a kindly pat on the back from yon," Bettlngton answered. It was not so easy to return meek answers to a man of Hallett's type. "I bad an idea you men of the sea were bluff, hearty sort of fellows, and yet you tell me you have been saying things to Mrs. Radway which were unwarrantable. It is that your mariners' way of giving a man a square deal?"' "A square deal for square men is my motto," Hallett retorted. "I say what I mean and I mean what I say. I don't like you." How Impossible It seemed to be able to make a confidant and allay of such an Incarnate prejudice as this! He watched Hallett cross to the wireless house; there must be some sort of kindliness in the man, for he put his arms about the shoulders of his nephew and young Unwin in a friendly fashion. "The fool," Bettington muttered. "Those three and I are the only ones aboard to guard the women If there's trouble; he makes It very hard for On ... East Tremonton j - 4- - Vernon Woodruff was a week-envisitor in Satl Lake City. He was accompanied home by Mrs. Mae Penrose, who is making a week's visit with her sister, Mrs. M. Woodruff. 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