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J VANCE V s -a- -'s - INSTALLMENT floundered'and blasphemed at random a round m in TiiQ Awr m annm were noiselesslysquirming on their bellies Trey Hearts” may now he seen at the leading like two great snakes in the beach-grass up the bluff moving tdetare theaters' Bn this tmiatze 'asranaemenf back of a ten-foot And presently from its brow they looked down on the spot where the With the Universal ilm Mfg Co’ it is therefore not only — — — lay only its bow out of water Its stprn afloat r possible to read the Irey O' Hearts"in this dory paper under armed guard hot also to see msfalbnenfof it at the moving Very slowly and stealthily Alan - x’s- WHO 'V'J'' ane A t suit iiiirti - corresponding photo-arama the to “ i r 1 1 n't f j a i " - i by 1314 Th SYNOPSIS— Louis-Josephyance)' 3 she?y’x’ constancy — On It likely s the Nauset Beach shank of a midsummer two men sprawled on the Sands some dis tance back from the water and listened to the heavy thumping of their overtaxed hearts and pauitju Now and again one would lift his head and stare out over the black face the waters at a little line of reddish flames about a mile off shore all that remained to witnessto the fact that an hour since these two had been In command of a? trim small a schooner as ever ventured the coastwise trip from Portlandto New York As far out again1 shone the starboardlight of a becalmed Schoqner whose people had been directly responsiblefor the disaster which had overtaken the smallervessel ' In the course of time beginningto breathewith more ease one ot the two marooned gentlemen said: "Tell me the Barcus what’s nearest symptom of civilization’” nfghf ' ’ - - r 1 1 n I n I 1 1 village” to the so wide said Mr cut off by J'' V - ' J ' ' -'s -x'ZX'x- '? ' ' 'XV -'x v - X e X A-’ '' S - -r 4 j is r i j -i "x t r - - ZW A' ' i S ' x - bs 0 --Z Zx' X -upon He with za&kVW ' r t think you mean your regular Judith Rose ’' her not sixth and sole likewise in MVAVOWre -r- ' ma toto TTfjTTxTl'iTlUliyjiii! immi ' x boarding garb of the rail seemed Observing this made as if guessed shrewdly!) men in charge of the one to leave him Alan f0Qr to permisslo to stQppedhlm the other wjth a gestor of ad-of prevent the loss that peremp-WniaVf I it was by answered w®8el if lives shrill and released his hoarse cries captors leaping9 the taffratl to C tostantaneos glimpseof the knlfe-twnmL Sr?t steamer towering above the toward ft at a speed which white under the cutwater Someone aboard the schooner with the voice of a stentorbelloweda terrified appeal Stop'youn— ShU‘ °ff & x z t- i tn fc'v'x- nglaTitTfll? s the ground its way the loose end of its painter slipping over even as Alan caught sight of ft So ft had Barcus astern aster-sweeping rXrt Toe of rough-and-ready life-hoat V? M - the fisherman was Judith Trine Down the sldea heavy for their j a “ big hand other member party Jws smart jet of a ‘ young in c't so far from y "sS ' Of 6dd’ a® ship: its bow knife a Wrath xX-s t the x xik'i lesser ?nThe And the full-tempered f one The a raised kidnaped Portland Gloucester a motefrvar coum nave caugnt tnat senooner before she sailed to waylay us this morning And what better way to take care Of an able-bodied girl you ve kidnaped than to ship her somewhere by sea in the care of trustworthy hellions?” 'Don ask me: I’ve done little very kidnaping for one of my years” "or tuppence” said Mr Law "I’d risk a swim off to that boat and see ‘for myself” “or two milliondollars— would not!” Barcus affirmed with great That’s grasp saw Barcus rudely roused and still dumb confusion tn no better case— jerked feet and held captive by two more fishermen A fifth had of taken charge Rose clamping wrists in the vise of sleepy s x e t don only as a prisoner helpless pair of powerful hands to ot two his to a v ' ' A You was the in ’ woman--?” "It’s possible feet slipped on fllanks greasy depositedby the surchargedatmosphere went down with a stunningthump and an Instant later two fell bddily men him— active strong fellows in the dress of fishermen He suffered rise xto- X feet He As A ‘"'oyvvX xAOtozJj' 5 Z - booted x '' ' A J '$ S WA i a- -7 xxS i X a 'a KlWxi V t - s ''XaS- '' - 'v‘ ' i ‘ Z ' s ' cia' S b K " Z' ' — x ' S Z $ j v T v- ’A' " v ? ' no’th’ardsand an Inlet a mile or at that” Law groaned soulfjilly there’s the “Then lighthouseon Monomoy Point” Mr Barcus pursued “three miles to the south” A silence commented eloquentlyon this assertion broken only when Mr Law voiced a thought bred of long and malignant observationof the schooner’sgreen feye: "I’d give a deal to know who’s aboard that vessel” " t ' K “six miles Barcus SV a at A-- 7x s 4 i x V S'V' f S c r S ' £ Mr ? ga&K S 'V x'S exultation diserigage of R g° We’re better without it fetch man fast till We’ll a rope make sure of them both this time!” Straining forward in the her of grasp mart! Sme SinVmh10fred her slster:4‘Judlth in pity’s think what you are doingT” “aS! y°w toague!” Judith snapped viciously Wh mper out of “d 111 have you gagged her threat’ though by the exhibitionof an automatic accompanied pistol wae drowaed out by the sudden roar of a steamstp that !t 8eemed to to fixate from the forepart of the schoonerher- ‘ Chatham in this action' his With moisture Hold III high could girl a-rush of the boarding party Were already shape through the fog as Alan toward the companionway to fetbh the rifle sprang And tory I accent of or the with loud i Jx'xoi an Alan figures fog-signal -of with taking -their f i The and as not always RECKONING in — me voice cried out Before either the decks rang pounding aft collapsed plut-ter-plutter ofCape DEAD A -the e t ever aif breaking in of his own we may possibly escape being run down” With a sigh relinquishingthe wheel he the 'deck upon and was almost instantly asleep care life-saving deep-throated temper Xaw f I fog-signals of Hearts !a the “death-sign” used by fluvuto war ox yengeance wnicn tnrougn daughter Judith a of violent and criminal and Questionable woman sanity he wages against Alan hoee father (now dead) Trine held responsible for made him a helpless cripple Rose Judith twin and double learning tof her sister’scampaign agalnatAlan leaves her homej to aid the man Under dramatic circumstance Alan eaves Judith's lire tend so wins her love but failure to shake hts Rose settlesJudith in her homicidal to purpose she contrives to burn a schooner in which Alan la use to New York marooning him making together with Barens owner of the schooner on an island south Cod -his young life— ’s far’s can make out know there are ’at least two on Nauset both with modern equipment and motor lifeboats and all nothing will that pack persuade of stick I me— stations I ' B-- i all your for wolves would confiscating pne of the same The wind had fallen until barely enough air as Our present stirred to more so keep she — only way on the vessel moved in businessis to get the hell Out of here silence a spectral ship spectral of — and not upon a sea got to his feet advertise our exit either that port light in Jong oily swells and the Take and back his complexion of lead Hither over shouldera heavy dub of and swung do the dowse it while by the starboard and same yon in the obscurity of other vdriftwood Then duck below warn your Dulcinea and shipping sounded a concert of discordance— A match splutteredbeside the dory and flamed put out the cabin lamp That man-power horn of a cat-boat in the still air relieving with its way— If this blackness reddish glow a cryingthe warning and our bull-luck only holds back to the whistle of a bronzedand evil visage — we may manage coastwise an evasion!” and the steamship impertinent The guard puffed last and had the tobaccowell drumming of a There followed an exceedinglybuy quarter of motor-boat’s with the muffler cut out the exhaust aglow when sky took advantage of his trustan hour for two in the'' constrained pitch darkness to This last E fulness and fell boxed sounding now uponhim like an avalanche compass grope their way about the decks and familiarize near now far though the complaints of other Simultaneously Alan and Barcus descended the themselves with the idiosyncrasies of a strange shipping diminishedin volume and died away in face of the bluff in two miniature landslidesdug two-master Nevertheless the end of that period the distance giving place to others still the out ana oy tne time the and disthe luemtsenes dazed found schooner with canvas full and sheets of that motor was never altogether armed guard had sufficiently recovered to cry out taut a good easterly breeze abeam swiftly weaving lost if at times it faded it for help? the dory seemed certain was a hundred yards off the a the light on wake southwards Mbnomoy to returp in even louder — beach and making excellent time in the direction volume ruiuL watcnmg ner curiously irom over the starVainly straining his vision against the of that lonely blank green lfght board beam pallor of the encompassing fog Alan wondered The commonest precaution however made them “Hear anything more of that power boat?” Alan worried dreaded! pause and rest upon their oars while yet a little joining by the asked Barcus wheel At irregular intervals starting from preoccupation from goal wind way “Nothing too fresh he Make yourself easy would manipulate the brass pull on the Only an ominous silence rewarded the utmost on the soft— side of a plank here I’ll land you a wheel-box provoking the horn’s stutteringblasts efforts of their straining senses: ho kick in the slats sound was when so minded— or when it’s of protest But the need for audible other than the gentle unremittingvigilance trick at the wheel” whine "of an un your and exercise of the failed none the les? -each picture theaters (Copyright ’:rW As ' - - in you t ' fftstaHmenisof cus 0‘ '- A - fl 4 -7 OURTH M- HEARTS 0' A'A?-’-- V p 41'-- ixiziy j thM TREY Z r t by ateamqhlp over-?Tb®Jm®d seemed to slice through cheese under water schooner as wo halves were frightful the fairly driven of the force blow T11UudfI8 deafenin& Rm Alan was hurledbodily through the air fully twenty feet h0 came up bo struck out at random blindly tormented by the vision of Rose the caught in suck of that gigantic wheel under crashed and mangled by the propellordrawn decision of the vast black hulk later the ZLJ flank A moment or so line little flames whose was sliding past like the face of a cliff went out altogetherand ten yards behind his and the unexpectedly shoulders Aware of several dark objects dotting the sur-face owner of the late Sqaventure fancied he could hear within even at that distance the hiss of radius of several a charred and yards he swam for the nearest: smolderingrtimberssucked under and drowned out the head was a woman’s the face “Exit” he announced plaintively "exit Seaven-turned toward him the face of Rose ture with heroic wildly: P good little He gasped "Keep cool! Don't struggle! gesture R a Ship!? Put one hand on my shoulderand—-” uiOh’ What happened then was never quite dear to et Up’ cant you!” Mr Law exclaimedpeevishly block: visible W him: he only knew that he "I’m sorrier than greased nothing the was beyond was forced to fl£ht for you are--and after all it’s his very sinisterglare of that almost stationarygreen lan life— that the my loss: I’ve got to buy you another boat All woman as soon as he you’ve lost is tern came within reach flung herself upon him like your temper” inquired “What think?” Barcus in a dubious un some maddened animal clutching his throat winding "And my susceptibility to the charms of the well-known her dertone limbs round his dragging him- down and sex” Mr corrected Barcus "Nothing can “No telling” Alan replied in the down ever restore my lost faith in gentle same manner iiwjjpir lhNsfew:4-(4544zsfejw woman’s “All a chance” Primitive Instinct alone saved him When you brought that young He remembered i “You’ve got that gun handy?” — with reference later most — aboard thoughtbutter wouldn’t melt in her woman vaguely the culminationof that zs (' mouth to the rifle of which they had despoiled the victim duel beneath the and for a while actually contemplated doing her waters— remembered freeing an of the sky’s thb arm drawing it back blow from r kindness of tipping you over into the drink delivering a his "Here” So’s she could lavish her shoulder with all his strength finding tenderaffections on a regular himself "Then — let’s go to it! Give way!” free guy Two Men Lay Sprawled on the Sand strugglingback to the air someone able to appreciateher — meaning A lusty strokes dozen brought them alongside me of Then a boathook caught the back of his shirt course And first thing know she ufls the schooner and as the dory and points a gun at scrapedthe waist of With a chuckle Alan obedientlystretched himself and tq reconcile dragged him for some distance until two the larger vessel the two Alan to that blatant my head and tips nic overclamor which so strong young merf dropped oars out on the deck hands caught him beneath the armpits and board and then makes a pretty bonfire out of widely and so hideously advertisedtheir whereabouts rose and seizing the low my gunwales lifted themselves “I say held his head sailboat And all the Law!” is above the water excuse you can produce to the deck — that she’s crazy in the witlessly Well “Well?” If there He looked up into the face of head! who said she were Barcus Nothing opposed them: the deck was ignorant anything still to be feared from “You seem pretty easy in your mind about this and still wasn’t? Any woman who would consentato elope Judith and her bewildered struggled feebly of other footsteps than for instance their crew — if as Barcus with fit own the schooner as To she’s you is a subject for a young woman below me the had The other’s voice commission de silent as only a same brought him back to bls suggested they had soughtout one of the life-sat becalmed ship can be that tried to send me to lunatico Jones’ locker ing stations old top! inquirendoall right” Davy How senses: "Easy it further on Nauset Its Take easy! Without consultationAlan Ited quickly does she explain her Beach appropriated You’re power-driven all right or a moment the two maintained attentive aft and presence aboard?” and down the companionway to the cabin renewed the pursuit if now— rest a minute then help me get you "Much as Alan replied “I fancy surmised” aboard” where a dim light burned— a smoky lamp swinging they Luey neara that norn there would beyond chloroforntedher while she slept in that A silken whisper troubled the silence a little question be the devil to pdy! He obeyed controlling his panic as best he in gimbals abovea cluttered table hotel in flutter of Portland Whether or no Rose woke up The loneliness sopnd from far across the waters Gradually of his vin might and presently with considerableassistance Of the two stateroom doors one disclosed an in closed re-of it a motor-car of gathered volume became recognizableas bound and lieved by the appearance on deck eventually from cabin otlibr was — gagged the Barcus contrived to scramble in over the the locked the lisp of cautious empty woman course— and was brought aboard at Gloucester Alan loved oars the Trying handle roughly Alan fancied he suuwaies ui a ooat wnicn proved to be the stolen about midnight” “I’m going away from here” Mr Barcus an The tableau that greeted her vision as she heard a sound within Pausing he called with a Simple and his legs when you know how” Barcus commented from the nounced guardedly gathered under thrill ot fearful hope: emerged Aside from Barcus and himselfit held one other companionway of- the haggard Of course him always did say that truth was preparatoryto rising unshaven wretch person only — the woman he loved "Hello In there” wheel and the other who crumpled up a stranger to fiction Half a second” Alan Law insisted rising in Cuddle down now and ry his feet and ay at he had fallen in unconsciousin the bow of delight: where of The response was incredulous talk stupor turn and ary you insensible” graspingthe other by his arm fatigue instantly "They’ve "Alan!” He strove to rise and go to her to make sure wrung from Rose a little cry of got to land— haven’t His accents already merging in with the swish solicitude that still they’— and leave the boat she she lived of Alan ’hurled And was quick to do what little Barcus restrained and quieted By way cf the ’longside answer himself bodilv while they look for us Well then she could to him waves the bubblingof the wake alleviate their discomfort what’s to prevent against the door At the second impact of shoul and or Barcus our hiding In the dunes and ?” compositevoice of the ship in she fetched 'a Easy pillow and “There! say! She’s all by and eighty of blanket from the right—fainted — ders backed hundred pounds the next breath being unconsciousness like cloud cabin In "Look outl” He shrieked a descended and this one Suffered all! She and took the solid flesh and her determination the lock ministrations — that’sthe water in practically With no: warning whatever and within fifty feet upon Alan’s overweariedfaculties from without once rousing from his slumbers Then its :sobket the door flew open with a same spot and luck threw this blessed of them a ghastly flare broke out in full He woke mutinously with a yawn and a Shiver boat blaze hastening forward she got the galley fire within half a into the dozen strokes No bang— and- Alan In the gray of going troublemy way room with a cry: tarnished surface of the water revealing the' a daybreak to find that and all of a prepared a at in a of speaking!” shape makeshift breakfast for her halffamished "Rose!” fog pressedheavily — manner the face of the dory which1' had drawn In unseen 'undpr Mvwnf upon lover r C JJis waters a “But the steamer— sweetheart met him half-way her arms mist that from the profound 'darkness and at the sam'o time dis-’ so thick the stern the waist of food and Warm hot fret her? At the 4: 'her countenance transfigured coffee—such as they were— "Why about nare the vessel was TMG coveringjto' its occupants the two startled figures almostinvisible the bows completely lending a little tone to Alan’s spirits he making she couldn’t have stoppedwithhv-half was presently Arid Mr! Barcps turned and slowly ascended the a the beach: so on able to discuss their mile We’ll be all right in uiR nRacn situation with companionway his nose wrinkled with misgivings now— with power to fetch Barcus stood over him at the wheel fairly reeling Before they could stir the weird light glimmered optimism Yet nothing could gloss the fact some us to land” ten mimiteH hail that Some” a rnm with the weariness his eyes blood-shot swollen the problem confronting the Judith!” on a weapon bowofthe boat a "But others— Alan broke the' embrace of’the lovers: them was one sat and and hajf-closed in whose up a face like a mask of fatigue Rnltertib rnnfi’tiAnr reddish flftmo enaf mH kniixi baffled their leaned the utmost Ingenuity— the over gunw’alae searching an oily J MW- WUHVU Below there! say— Law!—wind ‘‘Can’t keep ijmch up longer” he apologized simple contemplationof which taxed their one leaden sang between Messrs Law and Barcus 'aridwith spotted only with a few thickly "stood it xl courage and bitsexpanse thud of disappointmentburied itself in thd about as long as can and intelligence to the of wreckage a Take "I left her out extreme DUl'x aeiay was several times milltrick and give me forty j bluff knli S7‘’x ouipuiaiea aanro’ ax mflWAadi am Iva illi yoqr winks” He summed up: ”1 can’t see anything for It but she’ll drown rnds s'deek- to tell ocaaav&Q vi vv vwvou uiuu behind Myaixxxu 00 betorelaaShowed up-ori you!” aid theckpstinj Grateful solicitude brought Alan instantly to his fatherlandJudith are determinedto have “Xnd I’ll tell you something!”said Mr ?c°? ‘Je’RBafcuibendlng laborious back to a side though he himself sluggish my scalp Barcus report-thotwo and stiff and and I’m hanged if turned and pelted off down? the can see how to protect severely “You’ll lie quiet and ‘Lerid'and can’t yqur Barcus shut uflor I’ll dent in all his limbs myself to area of illumination 7blowinr' sore without taking a leaf out of their escape that-deadly "r'didnVaritPr with the shaft heavilvn books your dome of an ‘oaf Let her ?Other!shots-sped after them but none-was sd?f jufit to 'get 'an cbk wixivjuin “You’re a brick!” he protested most afraid of is that "Why didn’t drown-and audience forget a good job 'you call me some time say!we ger mis may Don’t you well aimedand Buuuur sooner?” its a I’m presently1 a break'Jn’b anchor In— defending myself against thw woman n 'MAnvh'f When meanins' "No good: knew the way— you didn’t fellow’s fighting fot his D tthe bluff they swung' off Into the grateful shelter' a — — mm neavens JL fl wli Ti very life hq Can’t always-stop “°St V checkedhlm vaxvvxvvx axxsx ntiu O'r UHI1U on flig arm did until this CTen” ?sat!abl8S“tt°a for 1 the night-wrapped abcursed fog closed down a to calculate punishment: o dunes the: weight of his blows” '‘What’s that?” he demanded In a tone tense with Trasn'tilstenlnpcoupleof hours agoC Now— God knows where we' Meantime the dory had grounded 'on the The young man sighed 'Aan' apprehension?' ‘Jshook his head face laughed 'i His arer-by reckoning somewhere in Nantucket as-’ and its several occupants four’ or five of them all’ rumiriing my uncertainly and held her closer to JJ The muffled-’ oLahim: liahtless tha Lk 7 — hr Ttrft heavy mirlnd Houna west of Monomoy In suitidfcwn on the x men1 apparently— jumping out set xiear rii seme w out-: without inimuK motor drifted Wines ortho wtovwwwB Grasping a small brass handle affiVari A' iV tliem ij oi inc luKuiveai dioiiowiDK vue uracss in windtV’sCt'’? 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