Show CONTINUE ici IVI rit MIT jy OVE v r 1 J i iiii T i and now she went to work hooking up the disheveled hairson hairs of the ocean and landing many adny a cargo on the extreme margin of the san sau sand d from whence she would be able in the evening to drag it back before bedore I 1 the invading wat waters ers would return n 46 to re reclaim cla the tha spoil aud aua aud and on hia bia hi sid side e a also aiso ISO ba barty arty made his heap up against against the noea northera northern buttresses of which I 1 have spoke spoken ii bartys heap became big and nd still bigger z so that he be knew let the the pony work ad as he be might he could not take it all up that evenin evening 0 but still it was not as large as malaya vallys heap mallys mailys hook was better than his fork and mallys skill was better betted ta man wan als 1 strength tb and when he forked in so some in e haul 2 maily mally would jeer him wath a wild weird laughter and shriek to him bim through the wind that he was not half a I 1 lian man at first he be answered hir bir berwith her with laughing words but before long cot as dhe ghe she boasted of her success and pointed to the failure he became angry n and th denb ePhe 0 e a answered n sw i ered her no pore more noro nore the gloom among ro the rooks rocks s was wai now b becoming ec omin Z thicker and thicker but bat still lie worked on he ho would not be beaten by a girl the great hole was now full fall of water but of water which seemed to be boiling as though in a pot and the pot was full of floating masses large treasures of seaweed which were thrown to and fro upon its surface but lit lying there so thick thavone that one would seem almost ablerto able abie to rest upon it without sinking mally knew well ho how W U seless useless it was to attempt to descue rescue aught from the fairy fury of that boiling cauldren cauldron caul dron the hole went in under the rocksann 0 n ia the side of it towards the shore lay high hibb slippery and steep the hole bole even stilow water was never empty and mally believed that there yas vas was no bottom to it she was accustomed cus tomed to call it which was supposed when who ilg translated ian jan slated to mean that this was the leole hole ome owe evil ev if one weyer never N ever did mally maily attempt attempt to make mate her own of weed which had found its way into that pot but barty Gun gutliffe liffe knew no better and she watched him as he be endeavored to s steady ce ad on the treacherously slippery edge of the pool ile he fixed himself there and made wade a haul with some small success how be tie managed it she hardly knew know but she stood still for a while wa watching ebina him anxiously and then she saw him sli sll slip he slipped and recovered himself slipped ed again and again 0 recovered himself barty you fool she S crid cram CrIm mil Wil 0 lif you yon get yourself pitched in y ou rii ill never come out ont no more 1 whether hether AV she simp simply ly wished to frighten fri ahten him or 0 r whether her beart heart relented and she had bad thought of his danger with dismay ma y who shall say she could not have told herself she hated bated him as much as ever but she could hardly have wished to 4 ealm baim I 1 b imi d drowned 0 before her eyes day you oil oti go on dd wd doht mind me said he speaking in a hoarse angry tone mind youl who minds yon retorted the girl and then she a again oain gain prepared herself for her work but as she went down over the rocks with her iong long hook balanced in her hands she sud sua suddenly denly hearl heard a splash and turning ir quickly round saw the body of her enemy tumbling amidst the eddying waves in the pool instantly mally hurried across to the edme edmo edged f af the to pooi pool ol 01 crouching down upon lier her hands bands and knees for security as she did so As th tha the wave receded bartys head and face w was i s carried round near to tier her and she could see ec that his forehead was covered witha with bio blo blood od whether he we were alive or dead she did not know she had bad seen nothing ca but his blood and the light col coi colored ofed haimof his head lying amidst the foul then his drawn alon aion along 0 by the suction of the retreating I 1 wave but the mass of water that 1 escaped was not on this occasion sion slon large enough to carry cairy the ma man A gut rut out ont wi thit i instantly mally maily was at work with with her hook and getting it fixed into his coat dragged him to towards wards the spot oil on which viii cil ell I 1 n kneeling during the tte half she was minute of repose slie sile 0 got him 0 so close that she could hW shoulder hi Straun ng mr 0 herself down laying herself over the iod ion iong long 0 bendin bending r handle handie of t the he hook she strove stroye to grasp him 0 with her right z hand but she could not do it sha she could 0 uld only touch him then came the next f breaker forcing C itself on with a roar looking to mally maily as though it must certainly knock her from her bet resti ude udd place and and ana destroy them both it rushed over llor tier as sile she lay almost prostrate and when the water was gone from her eyes and the tumult of the foam and the violence of the roar roaring ing breaker had passed by her she found herself at her lenoth length tl I 1 upon the rock while his body had ate vir vid I 1 gifted up free from her hook and was continued from page i i lying alyin upon the slipper ledge hair half in in the water and half out of it As she looked at him bim in that instant 1 she could conid see that his eyes were open and that he was str lim ling 0 ais als hands hold sold by the hooky r barty she cried pushing the stick 0 of f it before him while she seized the collar of his coat in iut her jien hands had he been bem her brother her lover hgr ilg father ca could I 1 not bit hit have havo I 1 clung to sm pill 1111 with morel enersjo energy 7 of despair d eg air ho he did di j cin cip ritt ditt hol hoi hold hoid d ff by y tt the tho 0 s ti ic which she e had given en him and when the succeeding wave had passed by h he was still on the tho ledge in the next next moment she was seated a yard or two above the hole in comparative safety lay upon thor tho the dla t hla hia lamla rn in i r A L i i 4 still bleeding head bead resting 9 upon her ler ier lap what could she do now she cou con could d not carry him and in in fifteen minutes the sea would be up where she was sitting 0 he was quite insensible and lind very pale and was scorning comati slowly from the wound on liis lis forehead she set herself to work and she moved him almost lifting him As she did so she wondered at her awn own strength astren 0 tb but she V very tory strong at dt chats moment i enderly balliu fai fal falling liu ilu a 0 o on a the fhe rocks herself er so that he might M fall on her she got him back to the margin dof I 1 the sand to a spot which the waters would not reach for the next two hours hercher here her grandfather met mt them harint having g seen at last what had happened happe bappe hed bed from the door dada she said he fell int into 0 the pool yonder and was battered agaid atho the tho rocks see there at his forehead mally said the old man say we murdered him 11 say so ha li like that dian didn ap pp bulf ulf bim him out of the hole hw ae v 1 r what matters that his father 11 11 say we killed him it was manifest to mall mail maily mally y that whatever any one might 0 say hereafter her present couce courser ale aie was as plain before her soshe so she ran with alf her hir speed in the diree direction tion of old Gunliff es house and as she drew near to the homestead she saw that bartys mother was leaning 0 on the gate gat As she approached she attempted to ca call eail il b but ut her breath failed her for any purpose of loud lond speech so she ran on until she was able ablo to gras grasi grasps mi rs gutliffe Gun liffe by the arm wheres whereas himself I 1 she said holding her hand upon her beatin beating heart that she might husband her breath who is it you meant said mrs gudi iffe who participated in the family fendl filid against Tren glos and his granddaughter dau 13 abter what does the girl clutch me for tor in that way bartys dying then all bathis time mrs gutliffe Gun liffe was in an agony of despair and was calling out for assistance lustily in a very few minutes she was hurrying hurrye 0 across the field a again ahr towards the libe path patti to the cove and adall iffe with the other man and his wife were following her A As mally went along she recovered her voice and tried to explain to the father what had happened saying but little of her own doid doings 0 s in the matter the father as he went said little he was known as a silent sober man well spoken of for dilli gence and general conduct but supposed to be stern and very hard when angered As they drew near to the top of the path the other man whisp whispered dred something to him and then lie turned round upon won mally maily mally maily and stopped her if he has come cae by his this death between you your blood be taken for wor his lie he said then the wife shrieked kw ou out that her child had been beca murdered and add ada ana mally looking round mound into the faces facea of the three saw that her grand grandfathers fat li er words had come comoe true TO BE CONTINUED J |