| Show h vt war ml in w t I 1 it y aft t h alb 4 t 0 alz CHAPTER X continued 12 then im afraid ive got a hit bit ol of bad news for you lie ile told her hy by what means the letter had fallen into his bla hands bands you may think it was not strictly honorable and I 1 s suppose U p 0 ask it but I 1 had mary mr to t I 1 i f about and something told me I 1 ought to I 1 in n the end be glad too 11 she rend read it through and handed it back she elie wondered that tier her land could be so steady and tier her face so no lin yet in her henrt heart at she I 1 e w was n s saying buying 1 I can never be truly h happy n ap y again no mat mutter t er how long lone the apura of my life the note was addressed simply andy orino onna dear andy it began the th use of quarreling about the atud way woman now I 1 was ana wrong to he be eo 0 savage about it but im fin not tle the cold 0 ad calculating type like you we need you to take the yacht to 0 o allmon it if you dont it means back 0 o sun quentin for you yon for we shall surely be b rep reported oried and a search made if tight light for her when we got to 0 n R im willing until then let us ua make peace answer immediately HERMAN Mt 11 1 I 1 told the boy to come back in half an hour ile he will know enough to convince you it if this sufficient clent ill bring him in here and we can cross examine him film what to do you want to do mrs airs it adway ked in a strained and lifeless voice mary looked at tier her with a sympathy Bym pathy sho dared not allow she really loved him thought the wine mary get the doctor in here and make him answer todd thought tile the thing was obvious when were through with him well hear the hoy boy bob fetch him the of waiting were the bitterest that any hour of a life in which sorrow had seldom been absent of late years had brought avelyn railway hailway the foundations of tier lier faith were shaken she could not uri understand der stand by what miracle of self pus session she bhe was able to control her self belf and compose her features so BO that the others did not see tier her secret writ ten there bettington was looking pule and tired there was a dull pain in tits his right tilde side which hud had grown worse since his struggle with sam it alis borne wrenched adnew lie supposed lie he tried not to lot let it be seen acen oil of them all airs afro railway saw he fie on suffered f this he asked e es a 1 saying I ying cheerfulness A council of defense although lie he addressed tits lila words to evelyn radway adway Il she did not answer but her face alone showed no emotion crosby todd had triumph written on his hl with a tinge of malace in it IL bob felt and expressed contempt he wits was angry with himself for having admired the man and mary looked at him as one might gaze gaze at some som i oi creaturo creature of whom deadly qualities are pointed out bettington dropped into a chair wearily this was to be one more exhibition of hodds todds it seems beems im on trial again ho he mad cold the pertinacious todd my accuser looked around and tile the jury ready to convict why do you call yourself doctor walte when it your camell bettington felt himself flushing like a boy detected openly in falte falsehood hood lle lie knew tits his accuser felt he had encored a point what Is my name camol he demanded ill admit it watte waite your name Is andy orme onne todd cried usually ready tn in any of bf the emergencies normal men are called on to meet bettington found himself utterly unprepared for tills this ills face showed bowed it there was confusion writ ten on it and for a moment helplessness and despair all that tie be tn in tended to tell tuero them prefacing it with the story of his abduction was now jis useless eleas they would hel belleve hellev leve it all part of the ann monstrous chain of excuses ile he had woven to lull suspicion it orme either he be answered better hear the whole tiling thing from the beginning lie was amaree at mrs hirs suddenly aud denly changed attitude spare us that 1 she ehe said never bad he seen her look so cold and un approachable she had learned tn in the spa space of a few seconds second that the vian man she hod had idealized ws wits indeed a member of this crew of crime she had no longer any te trell elings of her own to consider site she must took look after mary she reached for the folded letter that thai lay illy on the table before before todd lalay I 1 see that letter retting letting I 1 too ton asked r tie he tead read tt it and then angered them by now at least he be knew why he juds was prejudged ul J this Is good news on the whole I 1 lie he remarked theres a chance ot of saying caring you for what evelyn railway radway asked for any use you way may choose to cut your life I 1 mean man i think t can get you to savannah it if mr tudd todd can be at as quick in an emergency as he fie Is in with his tongue and the other had will risk it we may be able to seize tl ti e ship and leave mary and ajr mrs rod iway without protect loor todd glared at him angrily such a ruse w was a 8 to too WAS he h 0 by sy WYNDHAM COPYRIGHT IN TUB THE 0 11 balc Ser viell gold id sarcastically doctor whatever yo you u call 11 id like to tell you my real name bettington said rising stiffly from the chatir wholly unconscious of toddy todds thre gesture you wont believe it now why lell fell it then todd retorted Belt bellington ington kept hla his temper with an effort Tame flume bume day when we get out or of tills ti li I 1 ah ship I 1 shall be able abl to you I 1 gave you the opportunity to li believe elleve and you would not docs it mutter matter radway asked frigidly not net very much im afraid to you hut but its important to me vm im a painter by profession as I 1 think be bileve i j was at harvard with the father of these unwin children as aa they cn can find out it f they put pill meto me to tile tho test lie ile would recognize me as howard bettington ile ho did before they burled burle d you bob broke lu in triumphantly ile eie remembered how broken up his father had bad been at the sad and death of tits his old friend was tills this man never to make a likely nent theres nothing will muke us believe you even if we wanted to mary looked at him film with deeper horror in her eyes than bob had shown she remembered how he had bad led tier her to talk of tier her father he lad had seemed bi emed so interested in him that she elie had chat chattered all sorts of intimate details which he had find treasured up to bolster tills this attempted imposition bettington Bettl looked at them wearily they were willing to believe him guilty of almost tiny britne but to all vint that was true they turned deaf unfriendly enra ears ile he shrugged his shoulders and moved toward the door all right ill see you get enough food I 1 suppose no advice of mine Is welcome hut bill remember your ultimate safety depends almost entirely on my efforts and I 1 dont propose to be hampered by tiny childish actions of young heroes like you you two are to remain here until I 1 tell you otherwise youre taking a whole lot on yourself a todd suld said angrily where do you get your ily by the right of being the strongest man on this ship arid and the most desperate 11 bettington glared at crosby todd in such a way that tile the younger man felt the element of personal onal fear poss possess e 83 him 1 I 1 am engaged single hand ed in an effort to bring you to savannah and I 1 wont have any inore scenes like these ive stood enough from cron yon all when I 1 give my signal taree double raps let me be admitted instantly see that some one to Is on guard night and day tits ills heart was full of bitterness they would not even give him a chance to explain arvelyn undray had changed utterly ile he had imagined that from tier a spirit of fairness might he be expected always we ought not to have let him go todd suld said when they heard board the bulkhead close we ought to have hae held him as aa a hostage airs Itu dway thought she had come to tile the popular way of thinking was not ri reconciled to tier her new leader leadar you would he a child in tits his hands she suld sald contemptuously cant you understand that yet it if you still believe in him todd said there Is a new chance to prove you tire are wrong tills this hoy boj slivers silvers ought to be buck back it if he meet orme ill put him film through the third degree and you can ask what questions you like tt lt so happened that the furtive slivers silver missed the surgeon and came rapping ut at the steel door there was nu no necessity to put pill him til through rough a severe cross lie he ha and d th abal at grumath sense which finds its metler to in publicity what he hart had not tl beard ard tind eliut tie he did not understand stan about the motives of tile the crew he amplified and hardly guessed ho he wits wan lying sure lies hes one of em cm said the boy bov eagerly him an the steward wal was tile the busses bosses ills lainas lain cs orme lie he was a murderer and forger who broke son quentin fluid killed a prison guard they say lie he was waa is big doctor in ne new york once the ponies was tits his ruin them an the wheel lovelyn railway was the only one ot of them who remembered the trial of a celebrated surgeon of brilliant parts and good family ally he had killed the man who was threat bening to prosecute him for forging a check and this was the man who hat had just jual gone from them promising safety I 1 we ought to know how bow many men there are on bourd she declared and how their are am surely they cant all be had bad silvers shook his head knowingly a pretty hard bunch the steward he picked ero em can cause they were tough and hed gut got the goods on em afraid to go buck back who killed aln hallett Hal lettl todd demanded ile he saw aw evelyn velyn liS Rad roadways ways face grow whiter as he asked it sam said silvers instantly sam Is some shot say he added do you know why wh the steward stood there and laughed at the cup cap like he be did hed fled made hamner f mak fisk isk him first klamner ll aroner got the gun the tha alap cop had jo in hla his hit hip pocket hill nt he never thought hed pack another car aled one up on hla his chest that tooled hamner Hu niner 1 I went want the names of the rest of the crew mrs hadway said silvers was ready and willing to help Bletz gers the first then theres fer Ier clra etra the cook kenzie makes ti oliree ree gra u mann hamner and krau kranse e six aint it mike the deck hand Is seven and doe doc eight there atre are two men down there with beazle or so methin like that chat JU juat st foreigners who dont ino know w no united states scared to come up countin roe me theres there eleven against you two tellers fellers swell chance youve got P I 1 why should we reckon you as one of them mrs mra asked cant you see the linger danger of being associated with men like that when we get back to new york hut but we aint said slivers silvers sagely 11 ints the difference were coln suits suit me kenzle kenzie said bald carelessly Care laly A all I 1 right C cap a p to some soine pance in central america I 1 told the doe doc I 1 was a neutral tell vie me about kenzie mrs badway said she remembered that the second engineer had not struck her as being the shine depraved sort as his superior slivers silvers was ready as usual it seemed that no crimes of blood were laid to henzies Kenz Ken les door ills conflict with the law was of a bigamous nature wives lif ID many ports clamored for him for the rest he wits a quiet mati man now engrossed in the adoration of perfect machinery slivers considered bretzger bletz ger pereira Ier elra krause and Il lumner to be bad men capable of anything mike alike wits easily led and the ductor doctor asked todd lies iles playing a deep game said eald the lad Met Aletz gera gers abrald of him the lad saw lie was upon delicate ground new conventions conven tlona hedged him around here in tile the presence of the desired he lured not recount the precise precis reasons tor for Metz gers jealousy hut but when hen lie left he could have hae rendered Bett logton no greater disservice he fie had pointed painted film ailin us HS tile the sinister and dominating figure who brooded blooded over the strange cruise of the Albat rR bi trilling no qualities of honesty arid and courage and then moods of bi alling violence and ruge rage it was this sense of contrast which most ap to tile the hoy boy augustus condon well crush crosby todd said when lie he had and rone gone 1 I 1 suppose theres no ques irlon that my suspicions auspicious were correct ills words were aimed solely nt at mrs MY 1 I in afraid not she said but theres no evidence yet jet that we e shall buffet any harin from him lie tle knows known I 1 am ready enough to pay any ransom lie he deni ands in the luxurious quarters aft bet hington came upon metzger er and Ier elra sprawling on the great wicker chalm chairs well felir said bettington neton your you vou read the let ketterl terl in which you ask me to rake you to a convenient place where you can signal to a pilot and then hen get rid rd of we me I 1 knew very ery well that was what sum sam meant and I 1 know you two pro pre clous cious birds have the saine fame idea here are my ter terms ill take you to land in tny my own way I 1 will have nobody on the tipper deck if you have men to spare use them for stoking I 1 stint I 1 not leave the post but who will take a spell when you steel sleep IU ill get that boy rob bob up it you want me send a message by SI stivers I 1 vers when he be brings food youve se seen en i that im able to take care of myself well ill treat either of you yogi just a as a I 1 did sana sam if you as much put your root foot on the main companion the twain protested but in the end they gave in Uett bettington ington had bad heard beard no fearsome stories of violence where kenzie wast concerned concern td lie ile rpm ml r I that the man wa aoa s in the habit of marrying in his monie tits of sea leave and re gretting etring gr it in haste baste so no such charges were over over him as ai troubled the others but be feared waiting wives more than jat catl 1 terrors im in control bettington said gnad to him 1 I want all the stearn steam you can call give me have hare you enough help ive got these hun hinkles kles kenzle kenzie an sered rd if you want anything send word by the boy slivers silvers im not allowing anyone on tile the upper deck suits snits vie me kenzle said carelessly all right CUP cap lie he was already urging tits men to activity ile he eared cared little what went oo on outside ills his province bettington immediately went to the barred door and rapped as he had ar ranged todd let him in ive made terms with them bettington announced im to take charge nobody ts is allowed on the upper deck I 1 need help ive selected bob what am I 1 to do bob asked take your turn at the wheel and wake waka me if you sue see or hear anything 9 suspicious sleep up there so bring all the kit necessary As tor for you todd you yon stays here and never desert your post for a moment I 1 said I 1 had made terms with them only partly true ive forced them for the moment to agree with me start plotting in a few hours so continue to be on the lie watch un under der no condition should YOU iou go outside this part of the ship mrs It adway when the time cornea comes that its safe you will be told slivers Is a kind of oll dill clat messenger you can use him if necessary when the doctor left the them na crosby croby todd was especially vehement in hla his denunciation of the scheme that robbed them of rob you dont think bobs in danger mury mary demanded not exactly that but dont you see he wants to curry favor hell try and make bob think hes a stood hero not after reading that letter bob answered no chancel CHAPTER XI bettington captures the cook in a sense the breach between bettington and 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