Show FOUL By Charles Reade and PLA PLAY 1 r Y YBy I I Continued from Yesterday Morning l CHAPTER IX When tho the Springbok weighed anchor an anchor ari- ari chor and left eft the island a a. solitary form was wg seen cen on Telegraph hill hm When hen she pa passed sed eastward out of sight of or that point a solitary figure figuro was seen on the cliffs When her course brought the island dead astern of or her a solitary s figure stood on 1 the east bluff of the island and wn wa was was- the last object seen from rom tho the boat as sho she left those waters for tor- ever What words word can tell teU the sickening sorrow and utter 11 desolation that possessed pos pos- eE ed that yearning lo bosom om When hen the boat that had carried Helen away was out of f sight he came back with ith uneven steps to the cave I and antl looked at all the tho familiar objects object I with stony ston eyes ces and arid scarce reco recognized them for the sunshine of her presence was waR there no more ITo Ho wandered to and fro Cro In a a- a heavy stupor broken ever every no now and arid then by sharp pan pangs s of agony that hat almost made him scream And so the poor bereaved creature I wandered about all day ay Ho lIe could not cat eat he could not sleep his miser misery was I more than he could hear bear One day o of desolation succeeded another And nd I what men say ay hastily was true truo for once His Ills was a burden He lIe dragged It about with him he scarce knew how I Ho lIe began to hate hale all the things he had loved while she sho was there The beautiful cave all aU glorious with pearl that he had made for or her hel he could not enter it th thiS the sight almost killed him and ind she was WitS not there He lie left Paradise bay altogether at last ast and anchored his boat in n a nook jf or Seal bay And there there he lie slept in general But sometimes ho he would Ho lie down own io to to h he and ml nd aM Jon n LIM 4 ha t I v c I ITC I To TC Tomi mi Ii v wi J x I HO And nd when he did LIld wake wala it was always I with ith n a dire sen seme e of or reviving mis- mis 1 cr cry ry and a deep deep- sigh at nt the the- dark flay day he ic knew awaited him Ills Ins flesh wasted on his bones bones and amI his ls clothes hung hun loosely about him Tho The sorrow sorrow of or the mind reduced educed him almost to that miserable condition In which he ho had landed on the Island The rhe rh do dog and the tho seal eal were were faithful to o him used to Ho Be beside him and often whimpered their minds tom d to tp communicate without the aid lId lIdor of or speech found out heaven knows how that he lie was in grief or in sick sick- ne ness s. s These two creatures perhaps saved raved hi his life or hi his reason rhe They came camo bc- bc t tween oen his bereaved heart and utter sol sol sol- Thus pa passed ed a month of wr wretched wretchedness l- l ness un unspeakable Then his grief rief took a a. less sull sullen n form furm He lie came back hack to Paradise ba bay an anat and at sight I ht of it burst burd into a passion of v C p I ng These TheBe were his first tears and in inaugurated inaugurated in- in a n t Gr grief moro more tender than i over but less akin to mariners madness and de do- do Now he ho used to go about and antI cry her namo namI aloud pas passionately b by night and day Oh Helen Helen And next his mind changed In one respect and ho lie clung to every overy reminiscence rem rem- of or her Every morning he ho went vent round her haunts and IdS IdS- kissed d every place where h re he ho had hal s 's seen cn her put her hel hand hann not ct face Only the cave he ho could yet r Ho lie tried too lIe He went to the mouth 3 of it again and again and looked in but hut go into it il and faco taco it il it empty of or her her her-he ho could coull not He Be pra pl often octen One night he saw her In a dream She bent a look of or angelic an pity on oni i him an and Mid ohl but these thelO words Live Li Liver r in my cave then vanished Alone lone on an island In th the vast a p Pa Pa- ho can nn escape el sup superstition i it H. fills the air He lie took this communication communication cation as a command and ami the next nl night ht h ho he slept ICIl In tho the cave cavo nut Hut he lie tn it In iii the dark and loft left it before dawn By ily degrees r ho- ho plucked up IP courage and roc faced it in da daylight But Dut it it was a a. sad trial he came out erring bitterly after alter a n few minutes I Still he hc per persevered ered e because her hei Im Image ingo ge had bade him and at la last t ont ono I evening he even lighted the lamp an anti and sat there looking at the glorious walls wall and roof his hapless s love Jove had made mado madon n tier ncr r Getting stronger by degrees he searched about and found little relics of or a her nor a glove glo a needle a great hat hatsh sh she had made out of or some large lar e leaves lea All there thero he wept over and cherished But one da day he ho found at the tho ver very verj p back of the cave cavo a relic that made mado him start as If a viper iper hall hail stung his loving heart It was a letter He lIe knew it in a moment It ha had already caused him many a l pang hut but now it almost drove him mad Arthur Arthur Arthur Ar Ar- thur s 's letter Ho recoiled from Crom it it and md let It lie He went out of the tho cave and cursed his hard fate But ho he came camo back It was one of those horrible things a man abhors yet et cannot keep away from Ho lie took it up and dashed it down with rage many a time Ume but hut It all ended in his lighting tho the lamn lam at night and torturIng torturing torturing tor tor- tor- tor turing himself with every word of that loving lovin letter And AntI she was wa going home homo to the writer of that letter and he was left I prisoner oner on the island lIe Ho cursed curbed his generous folly and writhed In agony at the thought He raged with jealousy jealousy jeal jeal- so that his very grief was Vas blunted for a time Ho lie felt as if Ir he must go O madni mad ni Then rhen en ho he prayed praed pra prayed prayed-prayed prayed fervent fervently And at last Jast worn out with such fierce and contending contending- emotions he fell into a deep sleep and did not wake till the sun was high In heaven He and the tho fin first t thing he ho saw aw was vas the fatal letter I lying n at his feet teet In III a narrow stream of ot sunshine that came peerIng In n. n I He lie eyed yet it with horror Thi ThIa t was then thon then to lm by h night anti and day a llo i fh 1 d hIS d'-hIS This his race face from It BUt bitt fould not not eying it again And Anti at last certain In this letter etter seemed to him to bear an nf- nf n n to another piece picco of or writing that had also caused causel him a great woe 1 Memory by its subtle links connected thc these e enemies of his together lIe Ho e rayed eyed ed It still sun more l keenly and that Impression became strengthened He lIe took the letter tetter and devoured dc It and the effect of or this keen e examination was ivas very remarkable It seemed to restore the man mun to energy and to something like lUe hop hope His Ills eyes sparkled ed ed and a triumphant Ali 1 burst from his bosom He lie became once more moro a 1 man of action lie He rose rose and bathed d and walked rapidly to anil and fro Ira upon the tho sands w working rl in himself up to a 0 daring enterprise He lie took his saw into the Jungle and antl cut down a tree treo of or a kind common enough there thel It was wonderfully won won- soft oft and almost as a light as cork corl Tho The wood of or this was wac literally u useless less for Cor any other purpose than finn that to which destined it He lie cut cul a great many man blocks of this wood and drilled holes in them and having hundreds of or yards of or good line at attached attached nt- nt these quasi corks to the gunwale gun gun- wale alo so as to make malo a life Ute This work tool took him several days during which time lime an event occurred that encouraged him One Ono morning mornin he ho saw sav about a million million mil niH- lion birds very ory bus busy In the tho bay and It Jl proved pro to be a spermaceti whale come ashore Ho lie went out to her directly with all aU his tools tool for or ho he wanted oil for his enterprise an and the tho seal oil was ex ox hausted hen When ho got ot near the whale in his boat ho he ob observed ervell a harpoon sticking in the animals animal's back He Ho cut steps with his ax aC In tho the slippery carcass carca and got up tip to it Il as well iveli as ho could extracted it il by cutting and pulling and threw it down Into his boat hont but not till he had lint taken the precaution to stick slick a great piece of or blubber on tho the barbed point lIe He then sawed and hacked under difficulties being I buffeted and bothered with thousands thou of birds so o ea eager er for slices that it was wasas as is much as he could do to avoid th the making mailing of minced fowl but but true to his gentle creed he contrived ld to get three h wl ht of blubber without downright ht 1 killing any of these I sr greedy groody pd competitors though he buffeted buffet burfet- ed some o of them and nearly knocked out what little sense sonso they thc had Ho lie came caine ashore with his blubber and harpoon harpoon har liar poon and antl when he hp came to examine the tho latter ho he found that the tho name of the owner 0 was cut deeply In the stoel steel Josh Josh Fullalove c J. J Fernando Fernandez This Inscription had hud a great effect on Robert Hobert mind It seemed to bring the island of Juan Fernandez and anti humanity In general nearer to himlie him lie boiled holled down the blubber and put puta a n. barrel burrel of oil on board his life boat H Ho lic had a ships ship's lantern to to burn it fl In InHo 11 Ho lIe also pitched d her bottom as faras far fat as qs he could get et at it It and provisioned her for tor a C Clon long lon voyage taking cai caito care to lash the cask water and beef cask to the tho thwart fore and anti foremast 1 Incas Incase In ir case cas of rough weather hen When ho hu had done clone all aU this It occurred oc oc- oc- oc to him suddenly that should he ever escape the tho winds wind and waves I and get gel to En England land ho he would then ther I have to encounter and dangers dangers dan dan- an gers o of another class and lose the battie battle bat bat- tle tie b by his poverty I I 1 play lilaY m my last stake utako now raid paid he 11 I 1 will throw no chance chanco awa away avay Ho lie reflected 1 with great groat t bitterness s on the ml misery or that want vant of money had hoc already brought on him and he hu vowed vow ed cd to reach England rich or go to the th bottom of ot th the Pacific This ma may seem eem a a. strange vow ow foi foia a man to malta make on an n unknown island hut but Robert Ro had a pow I understanding sharpened by br advert r It ity and his judgment told him truly rul- rul that he ho Pos possessed 1 wealth on this thia island both directly and indirectly In th the tho first t place lace knowledge is sometimes wealth and the knowledge of or this island was a thing he lie could sell to the American merchants on the tho coast of Chill and with this view he put Jut on onboard hoard board his boat boal specimens of oC the cassia and other woods fruit spices pitch guano Suano pink and red rod coral pearly o oy oysters oysters oy- oy ster shells cochineal quartz cotton c c I Then li h he took tool his hig chisel and struck all the larger larcer pearls off the shells hells that lined Helens Helen's cave Tho The walls and roof yielded nine enormous pearls thirty lar large c ones onos and a n. great man many of the usual size Ho He made mad a pocket inside his ls waistcoat waistcoat waistcoat waist waist- coat to hoJ hold the tha pearls safe fafe Then ho lie took hi his ani and anil dug into the Spanish h ship for or treasure But this was terrible work The Tho sand and returned returned re- re turned upon unon the tho spade and trebled his ls labor The Tho condition to which time and long lon submersion had reduced his ship and cargo carbo was truly remarkable Nothing NothIng Nothing Noth Noth- ing Ing- to bo ho seen of or tho the deck but hut a thin brown streak ak that mingled with the sand an In patches of or the timbers nothIng nothIng nothing noth noth- ing but the uprights and of those the larger halt half eaten and dissolved He lie dug clog live five days s 's and found nothing soll solid On the tile sixth being boing now at nt the tho bottom bottom bot bot- tom torn of at the ship he struck his spade against something hard anti and heavy On inspection It looked like jl e ore but butof butof butor of or what metal he could not tell tell- It was wasas wasas wasas as black as coal Ho lIe threw this on onono one ono side Ide and found nothing more but the tho next day ho lie turned up a smaller small small- er fragment which he took tool home and cleaned with Hh lime juice It came out bright in places like sliver sll This discovery er threw light on the foe other The rhe piece of black ore weighIng weighing weighing weigh weigh- ing about seven sc pounds pound was in ill reality silver coin that a century of oC submersion slon sion had i reduced educed to tho the vel very appearance appearance appear appear- ance It wore vore before It ever went into hito the furnace Ho lie dug with fresh energy on this discovery but found Coun nothing more In Inthe the ship that diy day 1 Then It occurred to him to carry off x n. few W hundredweight of or pink coral H. H Ho got Bom some lino linci specimens and was it at that tont work he lie fell ren cli In wi M ltha th n. n ry at ho tho root and hc Oni Onn On n a i nearer examination this thlu to tobe tobe be oe a a. foreign substance Incrusted with coral soral It had twined an anti and twisted ted and curled over the tho thing In a l mo most t un- un of heard way wa Robert took too It home and ind b by rubbing rubbing- here herc and anti there thero with lemon Juice at la last t satisfied himself that thal this object was a l silver sliver box about the lh size Ize of or an nn Octavo o volume It had no iio rio kt hole had evidently been soldered up for tor greater security and Robert was waS' left leCt to conjecture how howIt It has had c como mo there H He connected it at once with tho the ship and felt feH assured that some at attempt nt- nt tempt h had d. d be been n made macic to save ln-e it There it hud halt l lain ln by the Iho side ide of or the vessel all these years eari but falling clear of or Lne tite sand had been embraced by h- the tho growing coral and was now nois' a curiosity curios curios- ity if not a 11 treasure Ho He would not break breal the tho coral but hut put It on board his life boat just as asIt asit asit It was And Am now flOW he ho dug lug no more Ho thought he ho could s sell H tho the galleon as ns aswell well vell as tho the 1 island by sample mple and he was vas impatient to bo be gone lie He reproached himself elf a a. little unjustly un un- un- un justly for or allowing a woman to undertake un- un the tite task of or clearing him To what annoyances nn and perhaps affronts have I exposed x her said heNo heNo he No Xo it is a mans man's business to defend not to bo ho defended To 0 conclude conclude- At high tide title one ono fine afternoon he went wont on board with Ponto Ponto Ponto Pon- Pon to and hoisting his foresail on only 1 clo crossed tho toe bay ranging rang along tho the Is Island Island Is- Is land till he r reached the tho bluff He lie got under this and antl by means menn of or his compass com coin pass pas and previous observations set the thebO the line the tho bO boats boat's ts head exactly on ducks used tt to take take Then Thon ho he sot set ct his mainsail all too anti and stretched boldly out acro across q the tho rent great Pacific oc ocean an Continued To Tomorrow V orro Morning |