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Show EMERY COUNTY fASTLE DALE. UTAH "Bprgg I ' 1 - A i. J i ? gnd'flght" "Whert will yon take nsr Mrs. risRadwav asked. Her splriU were In triher about looked she and ing himself. umph. He had vindicated "Savannah, probably. I ahall try to when get there In the early morning In liquor to see too far gone are they the landmarks." -Won't they find you've changed your course?- Mary asked timidly. "That's the only possible danger that I gee- - There's a deck hand named Mike at the wheel now. I shan't let blm take any more tricks at It I shall send him below to carouse with the rest We ouht to be able to make hours. If the Savannah In forty-eigh- t men In the engine room do their share." "You can't be at the wheel two on end." Mrs. days and two nights Radway exclaimed, "I can, and will." he said cheerfully. "1 think," he added deliberately, "that I can succeed if I meet no opposition here." He looked across the table to BY WYNDHAM MARTYN lit TBI COPTRIOHT O. a THE STORY and Howard Bsttlngton taka dinner with an old eolUf chum, Alfred Gibbons, financial mas;nat. Unwln a, wrlttan plrdg--s taken by the three at college to help each other In adversity, explaining that he needa financial assistance to educate his son Bob and daughter Wary. Oibbona agrees to make a place (or the daughter in hts organisation. Mary to a Is stenographer Unwln wealthy debauchee, Elgar Calling at Oibbons' office, as arranged, Mary la asked to betray her employer's aecrets and refuses. Radway plana an oceun voyage to recover from the effects of dissipation. Mary Is to go aa secretary, her brother to her. accompany Bettlngton, painting on the Maine coast. Is 's kidnaped, and taken aboard yacht. Hts clothes ars found by Clbba, a fugitive from Justice, who dons them and goes to Bettlngton's studio, and there falls to his death. Bettlngton Is questioned by a man known as the "Boss." He la shown an account of Glbbs death, the body being Identified as Bettlngton. The "Boss" Intends to hold Radway for. $1,000,000 ranaom. Bettlngton Is told be will be forced to assist Radway becomes desperately 111 and dies. The captain ahoota a drunken member of the crew and la himself killed by another member of the gang. Fiord Unwln pro-duc- Rad-wa- Rad-way- CHAPTER IX 10 Bettington States His Terms Neither Metzger nor Sam were on They bad retired to the accommodation aft, which had ao lately been taken by the captain. They knew that the Joint authority they were to exercise would not be disturbed by rivalries. They were not yet aisnred of the course to be taken. On the; table before them they put their revolvers. Not in anticipation of disagreement, but rather lest Hal-lemight come In armed and ready. "I don't like this Andy Orme," said I don't like him any more Metzger. than you do that young 'Sparks,' who trots around with the girl." It was curious that In the moment when grave danger seemed to Involve them, Mettger thought only of Mrs. Sam lacked the volatile Radway. spirit of his companion. "Toull have time enough for that," Bam said heavily. "That ain't worrying me. What are we going to do now?" "We can sell this boat," Metzger asserted. "I told the doctor that, but he made excuses. He shall forge her papers. I know where I can find a Portuguese trader who will buy her. He will not give much, but what he gives will only be cut two ways." The treachery to the others was It was the only agreeable to Sam. way out. They continued to discuss the situation. There was Hallett to reckon with and his two adherents. They would be warned directly he left the room where he was hidden; there was no danger to apprehend. Bettington found Clements had been placed on a wicker lounge. His faded blue eyes peered up into the bright eky; there was still the unfading smile on his face. Even death kept his secret Perhaps none would ever know by what name in the world of crime he had been called. A deckhand called Mike was at the , wheel. "Where's SamT Bettlngton asked. "Went below with Metzger," Mike answered. Bettington followed them. Metzger and Sam ceased their talk when he came in. They wondered If he had heard any of it. It was a discussion which should have interested any man concerned with the length of his days. "Well," said Bettlngton, seating himself, "what's to be done now?" Metzger elaborated on the simplicity of his scheme. "The money would have to be split three ways and there'd be a nice little sum. I know men who will buy and ask no questions." "You'll never sell the Albatross," Bettlngton asserted. "Then I know where we can run her and live aboard. It's the Gulf of Nlcoya In Costa Rica. There nobody would ever find us." Metzger's face beamed at the thought "That's silly," Bettlngton answered. "Do you suppose we all want to pass ur days in the Gulf of Nlcoya? You've got the wrong idea. You are afraid to go back to New York, I suppose?" "Not for me!" said Sam. "The Boss never lied to us. When he said he knew all about us he was speaking the truth. I'm not goin' to run my neck into a noose.'' "Doesn't the same fate hang over me? You know it does. I look on it In a different light Nobody could know of Clements' death for a month, st least. He said the paper wasn't to be opened for a year. I'm willing to take a chance. We all want money, and a iot of it Mrs. Radway will pay vs Just the same as she would have paid Clements and we don't have to Share with him. Why throw it away? deck. tt : . We ought to take It and then go where we'd be safe for life." Sara was obstinate. To go north mennt for him to go to bis death. Alive or dead, he feared the man he Rather a short life had followed. and a gay one In some tropic isle, than Danuemora. Also, be distrusted the doctor. Metzger saw the scheme as a ruse to cheat him of the pleasures he hud determined on. He had not forgotten those long hours when he had watched the doctor and Mrs. Radway walking up and down the deck. That he did 'not Immediately counsel the doctor's death .was due to the necessity of making blm forge a new set of ship's papers. "There are others on board besides onrselves," he reminded Bettlngton. "They will not run the risk you look for. We have enough coal to get us to Llmon." "Can you navigate?" Bettlngton asked. "Can you take us to Llmon now Leary's dead?" "Hallett shall." Snm said suddenly, with ferocity. "I've handled men stubborner than be is and I've broken 'em." He clenched his gigantic hands and the table groaned as he struck it. "I'll break Hallett." "You've killed him," Bettlngton said gravely. "We'll leave Hallett out of the question." "Did I get him, after all?" Sam asked, ne sat for a moment thinking of the excellence of his aim. He did not realize the extent of the disaster until Bettlngton spoke. "That leaves us with the task of getting some one who can work out a reckoning and get us where we want to go. Otherwise we drift hither and yon till we are picked up by a passing vessel, or have to wireless for some one who can navigate." "n 1 1" said Sam ; he turned to the engineer. "Can't you?" "I thought not," Bettlngton remarked. "Apparently Metzger doesn't know that Nlcoya Is on the Pacific side of Costa Rica and to get there we should have to go through the Panama canal and come under the Jurisdiction of the United States. Find out who is capable of navigating." A search revealed none capnble. Sam and Metzger looked at one another doubtfully. Metzger feared that Sam was likely to favor the surgeon's plan and, for that reason, raised new difficulties. "If we do run back to New York," he said plausibly, "how are we going to account for Flallett's murder?" "It wasnt murder," Sara contraWasn't dicted. "It was Hallett armed?" "They'll call it murder in New York," Metzger assured him, "and you'd go to the chair for it. The Doc knows that as well as I do." Sam was brought to a realization of the effect of his shots which, for the moment, he had considered unimportant He looked angrily at Bettington. "You want me to be put out of the way so you get the money?" The surgeon shrugged his shoulders. "Anything the majority can enforce is best" he said cryptically, "from their point of view. I am looking further ahead than most of you. I see the Albatross drifting aimlessly around the seas, which will soon be a little too rough for a vessel of this sort If she doesnt founder she'll be reported by passing vessels and a search will be instituted and we shall all be taken Into an American port What is Metzger going to say to a naval officer who may board us?" "He's right," Metzger cried. He turned angrily to Sam. "What did you want to plug him for? You've put us of a mess." all in the h "I couldnt stop to think of that," Sam cried as angrily. "There is a competent navigator aboard," Bettlngton announced. "Who?" they asked. "I can navigate, if I want to." "If you want to!" Sam echoed. "Don't you want to get out of it with a whole skin? Ain't you In as deep as me?" "We'll force you to it," Metzger shouted. "You'll force me to do nothing," the doctor snapped. "I'm the one to make terms; you two have got to listen. Here they are: if the women are left absolutely unharmed and alone, I'll take the boat Into Limon." He sat still utterly unmoved at the blasphemous obscenity which poured from the lips of the two opposite. "And when we get to port," Metzger cried. "What then?" "Anything you like," Bettlngton told him. "A pistol, a knife or bare hands; but not cards with a man like you." Sam turned on the fuming engineer with an oath. "You'll get your chance In Llmon," he said. "None of that knife stuff now. No quarreling with Doc till then, or I'll take a hand in it." Metzger was full of quick, passionate gestures; Bettlngton remained immobile. The doctor's composure could only mean that he was conscious of triumph. While the fore part of the ship would be ba .Ted to the engineer, self-defens- 1 ghall not take them to Uroon. If I did I should most certainly be going me to my own death, for they'd knock on the bead and pitch me overboard I'm going directly land came in sight to take a chance that they win pasa their days In gambling and drink. take fresh air. They wont come to eat, sleep will gamble, drink, They of the Theil t MaddenIt was free to the surgeon. ing imuges chased themselves across Metzger's brain. "You think you can amuse yourself with her while we are working for your safety. You think I shall per mit It. eh?" "I shall be on the bridge, you poor benighted ass, trying to take the ship to Llmon. My hunk will be made up In the ciiartroom and I shall be work Ing when you and Sara are drinking and gambling. You're a swine, Metzger, and I'm not so sure I want to wait till Llmon cones In sight." Sara's heavy frame sprang between the two men. "Not yet" he commanded roughly. "It's Metzger's fault. Doc, and he's full of hooch." Bettlngton turned his back on the engineer. "Send Mike down to help me removed Hallett's body. It's got to be burled decently." "Anything you say," Sam observed, almost with gratitude. "Uadway'll filthy-minde- d I'll send Mike have company now. down right away," he added, as Bet tington moved toward the door. "He laughs at me." Metzger stormed when the surgeon was gone, "and he despises you. lie thinks he is my 55 of fear. falsehood was an evidence was tersomething that confession had there decided rorizing him. He evasion. of enough been -Todd Is right." he said, not sparing I dared himself. "I did know of it but confidence. into my uot take anyone win Consider the situation and you man was the only I me. agree with three who knew. There were at least danger before any ueeks to elapse threatened and by that time I should to have worked out some scheme save you." n "You might have trusted me, Mrs. my conyou "I said. gave Itadway fidence." "What plans do you mean?" Todd demanded. He had the air of one who sits on a magisterial bench. him. Bettlngton paid no heed to He wanted, more than anything else, to assure Evelyn Radway that he had been dealing fairly with her. "I wanted to trust you." he said earnestly, "but there were so many better reasons against It You did not know, for instance, that Clements had "Supposing they do find out you're them?" Bob Unwln said, with feverish interest bloodshed," he answered "More gloomily; the thought oppressed him. He rose heavily to his feet "I must impress on you to remain here and run no risks ; here you are safe. Outside, I can't answer for your safety." "There's nothing to eat," said Bob Dnwin. He realized he was hungry. "I'll get something," Bettlngton answered. "Don't open the door to anyone but me." A few minutes later they heard a strange voice in the corridor. It was Mike aiding him to remove the captain's body. Todd had been much attached to his uncle, who had brought him up since his father went down with his ship at sea, almost a score of years since. There was a certain boyish, passionate loyalty In his regard for the dead man, which Increased his suspicion of the doctor Into some harder quality of hatred. "I don't believe a word of his lies," Todd cried. "Mrs. Radway, can't yon see he's deceiving you? He knew about these men and yet he pretended It was all news. How can we tell it doesn't suit his purpose to hold us here and pretend he's taking us to Savannah?" "What are we to do?" Mrs. Radway asked. Todd had no answer. "I suppose we've got to wait till he's decided what to do with us." "What dare they do?" Mary asked. She had sat silent all the while. When her question was unanswered she knew what was in their thoughts. "I knew something dreadful would happen on this trip," she said, with a ' quietness that amazed them. "I had a presentment of evil. I have been afraid of that man they call Sam ever since I came on board. And now he Is practically In command. How could you and Bob stand against him? He could kill you, easily, with his fists." She buried her face in her hands. "And when you two are gone, what would become of me? I'm not afraid, dear. I shall not weaken when the moment conies." Mrs. Itadway put her arms about the girl's shoulder. Her eyes were double-crossin- arranged dictagraphs In various parts of the yacht. I was beset with dangers. I was being spied upon. I could never be certain that they believed in me." "Why should they believe you If you were against them?" This from the Inexorable Todd. Bettington experienced a sense of weariness and futility. Was It of any advantage, he wondered, to recount by what unbelievable ways he had been brought to the Albatross? Three of the four would think he lied; perhaps the fourth might wish she could believe. "If I told you," he said, "you would hardly credit It I haye no time now for bickering and You will discover the truth later. For the moment I am concerned only with your safety. The unfortunate death of Clements has placed all In a terrible predicament." "Have you the gall to be sorry my uncle killed him?" Todd said angrily. There was disloyalty In allowing such a remark to go unprotested. "Yes," Bettington said. "That unloose. Clements lucky shot let h controlled his men absolutely. If he were alive we could count on getting back to New York unharmed. The men are afraid of touching at any port now where our flag flies, because they know jail yearns for them. They propose to take the yacht to Llmon in Costa Rica. There they'll try to sell her. You understand that If they get to Llmon we shan't have a chance. We are four to ten. They are armed and we are cooped up here without food. It will take us almost two weeks to get to Limon." Evelyn Radway shuddered as the Image of Metzger impressed Itself upon her. Now she knew why he had stared with such Insolent triumph. She had no doubt in her mind that the doctor had put the matter as mildly as he could to avoid terrifying Mary. "What must we do?" she asked. "I have made terms with them," he answered. "They have nobody aboard who can work out a reckoning now the captain and first officer are gone. It happens I am the exception. I said I would take her Into Limon If you 1 "He Laughs at Me," Stormed Metzger When the Surgeon Was Gone. equal because he Is taller and stronger. He looked at me as one looks at a child. He will be a child there in Llmon when he sees my knife." "I ain't sorry I got Hallett," Sam mused. "This bird will be easier." He sighed when he thought of Clements. Had he lived Sam would have been certain of success. Clements had made only one mistake. He had not believed Captain Hallett would be cnpable of shooting him. Bettington experienced a feeling of dread at the coming interview which would not be banished. He knew that even in so short a. time as he had been absent a great deal had been said. Crosby Todd had a quiet obstinacy about him which would, by its very persistence, influence the two who looked to him for leadership. He found that the unoccupied maid's quarters had been turned into a sitting room for common use. The two boys had berthed forward in Elgar Itadway's staterooms. Alone of the four, Mrs. Radway gave him a friendly greeting. But there was a new look of anxiety on her face which he did not like to see. "Doctor Waite," she began, "I have told them about the ransom." "There were some things we all had to understand," Todd remarked. "Just what did you tell?" Bettlngton demanded. "Enough to make us want to ask a few leading questions." It seemed that Crosby Todd was constituted spokesman. "They're questions you've got to answer." "Got to answer?" Bettlngton retorted. He knew It was absurb to take offence at this obstinate, lad who detested hira so honestly, but he flushed with annoyance nevertheless. There was a certain air of triumph about Crosby Todd. "I told you he wouldn't answer." "I'm ready to answer anything you want to know," Bettlngton said quickly, addressing himself to Mrs. Rad g way. "It's simply this," she began, with a little hesitation. "Mr. Todd has an idea that you knew of this plan to hold my husband to ransom long before Clements informed me of it. I assured him that 1 was absolutely certain you suspected nothing until I myself told you." She looked at him with a sort of wistful eagerness. "Please tell him he is wrong." Bettington groaned. If he answered he would be forced to admit a damning truth or embark once again on the hateful task of lying to the woman he loved. His philosophy of life was not t complex on. To him Todd. Crosby g moist. "Oh, she dear," said, "you mustn't give up hope. If only you were not so prejudiced against Doctor Waite you wouldn't feel so. I am certain he will protect us. None of you know him as I do. If you did. .vou would never condemn him. I know we are In danger, but he's standing between the crew and us." She felt utterly unable to give reasons which would convince the group around her. Every action and word of the doctor's could be distorted into something sinister and threatening. She could not communicate to them the sense of security his protection were unmolested." "What will happen to us at Limon?" she demanded. "I don't like the idea of that." "Nor dd I," Todd cried. "I'll tell you what will happen. 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