Show int T or A BY T robear 00 1 I v B V er SY A AC r buc MAC CO CV j CHAPTER I 1 wave tossed and castaway III beginning was at ape to n when illace illahe and N e hovded the oten tiler as fellow passengers with lady ludy ila and her I 1 lart art this thin was a week after winthrope had arched on the tramp steamer from edh ladet anil anti hr nd ship h I 1 id ex to atlas lesile th tint tt it was as well for her not to be too habay in accepting his attentions to bo be sure ho he was ans an in his bin dress tress and ind manil u cra were irreproachable and ho he was in the prime of ripened youth yet lady nivrose was too cons clon clen tyous i chaperon to be full satisfied filth hf hir r country mans b biro bire ire assertion that he was engaged on a diplomatic requiring crice regarding hie his identity she did not see vh lia this should prevent him from confiding in her notwithstanding this winthrope came aboard ship virtual lr an a mem her of her lad ladyship ships pirty p he lie was quick so thoughtful of her comfort comfor t and paid so much more to her than to tess leslie tint that her tier lad ehli ship had bad decided to tolerant tole rati him even before illige bec became anle a factor in the situation from the moment he lie crossed the ganawa the american engineri ei en upon a dally daily routine of drinking and Ri garlid only by attempts to strike up an off offhand hand with ith silsa aliss leslie this was as lu thrones opportunity tunit and his clever frustration of whit lady clarose termed that low bounder a impe dence served to last instill ill him in the rood gold graces of her I lid ship ns as well as in tl e favor of the american heiress such buell at least ana as what INIn winthrope intimated to lie the persistent engineer with a it superciliousness of tone and manner that would have stung een a liti tish lackey to resentment to male it was subren ely galling I 1 he could net not rejoin in kind and rind tile slightest attempt at ph Ical retort would hao have awit irons and carthie coerne merit mont it was a british behind winthrope lin ln was lady roso behill her lid ship as a matter of course was all the despotic authority of the captain in the circumstances it was not cur surprising that the american drank heavier after each goa ling meantime Me Ile antimo antime the ship having touched at port natal ste steamed aried on up the east coast into the mozambique chan nel net on the day of the ccrone c clone blake had withdrawn into lit stateroom with a number of bottles and throughout that fearful afternoon was mas blissfully unconscious of the danger hh ken en when the steamer went on tho the reef ho he was only parti pard ily fly roused by the shock ho lie took a long pull from a quart flask of whisky placed the flask with great care in hia his hip pocket and rind lurched out through the open door was there ho he reeled headlong the th mite who ho had rushed below with three of the crew to briah biln up misa all 58 leslie the mate mato cursed him vir silently and in ft t a samo same breath or tiered dered two tuo of the inen inert to fetch him jp on deck dock the sea was ans liTe brcik akIng ing over the steamer in torrents but between waves maves liike was mas dragged across to the tlde and flung over into tho the hot torn tom of the one remaining loit lie ile served as a cushion to break the fall of alias losle L alle who wag was toss tossed edla jn litter after him at the same time N la in frantic with feir fear scrambled late the bow bows a and cut loose one of ilia sailor sailors leaped but fell short abort and vent down within arme armis length of atlas leslie she and ln siw the steam cr er slip hom the reet reef and sink bick b ick into deep water carr earning ing dou down n in the oites the mate and the few remain ing sailors after thit all wan was chaos to them they vere driven acore be fore the terrific gusts of the cyclone blinded by the at to all elbe au but the hell of breakers and coral reefs in whose whoso midst they swirled no dizzily and through it all milo lay huddled on the bottom boards gurgling blithely of 0 spicy zephyr and swaying hammocks ham there came the seemingly final mo ment when the boat went spinning stern over prow half sobered blake his eyes pi d stared solemnly about him lie wa was elyen little time to tb take hie his bear ings A smother en iother of broken surf came teething seething up froin one of the great breakers bre to roll him over and scrape him a little farther up the muddy shore there theta the flood deposited him for a moment until it could gather foice to sweep back and drag him down again toward the roaring sea that had cast him up blake objected not to tho the danger of 0 being drowned but to interference with his repose lie bad had reached thu obstinate stage lie grunted a protest again the flood teethed seethed up the bore shore and antil rolled him away froin from the daurta daar this WM was too he lie bet set his law A MOM mail E t I 1 4 Q sleeping the sleep of the just and the drunkard turned iner over and staggered to hie its feet instantly one of the lie terrt c wind mind blasts struck his broad b bid acl an I 1 I 1 sent him spinning for bardi ile brought up in a pool bi side a hummock under the ice of the knoll I 1 hy ty 1 in n and miss leslie though con both ere draggled and bruised and beaten to exhaustion they bic r because they hf hol I 1 come ashore together when the boat cap sized miss lesile had li ben lien en flung filing against tho the englishman and they had held fast to each other with the dee des hersto clutch of drowning persons of them ever recalled how low they rained the shelter tt 14 1 the hum mock moch stake sitting waist deep in the pool blinked at hem them benignly with ith ha his palo blue eyes and produced the quart flask still a third full of whisky I 1 allay trene frens ho he observed ili hi one on me annon on cs a you chent notta re chent I 1 you fuddled lout I 1 shouted nin in come out of tint thit pool Wat pool pool pools a alari al lr the squinted td through tho the driving scud at the cited man en anxious frown in nil all probability ho he felt no commiseration for the bo american but tl it was no light matter to be lie flung up barehanded on the most unhealthful and savage of tho mozambique coast ana ana illace might bo be able to help them out of nt to leave him lit n tho the pool was therefore there ther fote arote not to bo be thought of so eoon soon as he lie had dranou chipi 1 bottle he would ronld lie down and thit th it would be tho the end of him film As any attempt to move him forcibly WAS out of the tile quest question ion the tile situation dk dun that thit In justify itis intimation intimations of diplomatic training after conald ering the problem for several minutes ho he met it r rt a way may that proved ho he was at least not lacking in shrew shrewdness duess and tact see here ill hake like bo called in an other lull hill between the tile shrieking gute gusts I 1 thol abo lady aily Is fatigued ti ou re too much of a gentleman to ask hor her to como come over there it required some for thie this to penetrate deakes fuddled brain after ft a futile attempt to gain his feet bo he crawled out of the pool on all fours and with tears in hie his fye iryes pressed hta his flank flask upon miss bliss leslie she shrank away from him shuddering and drew herself up in a hudale of flaccid limbs ard limp Y yr ments e how ever no not olly ua accepted the ciuk but come near to draining it illace squinted at the diminished contente contents and an cast a of maudlin gallantry ai at miss atlas leslie she lay jay colled coiled closer than before id fit a draggled heap her ifer posture sug rested steep bleep blake stared at fit her the flask extended waveringly before him then he brought it to his hi lips and drained drainer out the last drop rime turn in he be mumbled and sprawled led full length in the brackish ooze immediately he fell into tt a drunken stupor winthrope invigorated by the liquor rose to his knees and peered around it was to face the scud and spoondrift from the furious sea but to leeward ho he caught a glimpse of a marsh flooded with salt water ater lu is reedy vegetation beaten flat by the storm lie fie himself vaa mas beaten down iowa b a terrific rust gust 11 inting and unit trembling he waited for tho the wind to lull in ili liopo hope that bo he might obtain a ch view of hta his surroundings ue be for foro im h again dared riso rise to his hib foot feet darK nna se swept down with tropical suddenness nud and blurred out ei every thing hie 1110 effect of the tile whisky soon passed and winthrope opo huddled be tween teen hia his companions drenched cd rind exhausted though he could licar 1 it leslie nio luo ining ho he wag vias loo himself to inquire whether he co lid ild dil do anything an thing for her presently he lie became aw chat the wind was falling the cr r of the cicione hat ha 1 I 1 bete no he ship struck and they were no too flin out armost birja 04 0 the vay malind alth ith the 01 ol till alila for the better a tear tea ral d nerves relax tI and ho he fell into a luany sleep steel CHAPTER 11 II wore worse than wilderness if from ill eslo roused the angi 1 aliman bouc ot of a dr am ain in lit bich he lie had been swimming for life across a sea of boiling oil ho ile eat sat up and riled about him halad bcd the ila had been followed ba b a dead calm calin and thu the eun sun already well above tho the horl zoti zon man bining upon them our lie the filiss sui races roces of the dying swells with fierce hoat hent NN anth ropp felt about for bid his fint hat it had been blown off when at the aarl tri kins king of tho the eleaner et al eaner emiler he dad had nishon up tip on deck As ho he remembered he lie 9 straightened and looked nt at lit hit coin pardons pardo nf binke lay snoring chero he had find first 1 himself hlin solf sleeping the sleep bleep of the juat and of the drun ketti the girl however waa as awake she eat sat with her tier hand cl cluied isled in her tier lap while the teara tears rolled slowly down her cheeks myah ally ah dear alias genevive Genev lve what alint la is the tu matter atter exclaimed win matter do you aek ask when we are here on thie this wretched coast and ma not get got away amay for weeks oh oil I 1 did so 0 o count on the loncoa season M ama 11 flirl lid promised that 1 I be among those presented vell jell I 1 ah lancy ancy lady damrose will do no more presenting unless it may be to the heavenly choir you khow klow I 1 hy what do you mean mr air N you told me that ehe she and the maids had been put in the largest boat I 1 my aly dear bliss genevieve you must remember that I 1 am a diplomat it wae was ell all quite sufficiently harrowing I 1 assure you they were indeed put into the lar arrest ireat boat beastly mud diol while they waited for the mate to fetch you the boat wa was embed crushed along alongside bIde and all in it drowned crowt ed I 1 drowned I 1 oh dear lady bayro sol and shed tra traveled veed eo so much oh dh ob it li to why did ehe she persuade me to visit the cape capel it WM was only to be with ber her and th thee p ai foi rot us to start off for india when we hav have I 1 tailed sti algat to 1 inland oil ob it la Is bor horrible riblet horrible and anti my ili unla ild and all it cannot be I 1 1 pia ilia 10 lo do not excello ou relf im rin har was 1 genevieve tach troubles aai m all over kr rr land gad has taken than lo 10 allm oil ou ano atut Butth the pit atit of it bo drowned io far from front home th h it that a nil all boure morr worrying ying about 1 I caust eay bay I 1 it d like to know ito how well moll git a aniuk tor for breakfast I 1 lit hull final ry ae as a or er groom I 1 acing alli iH how flow call au sou thal A of paling mr mir and ull all the ollit hibiya is drowned drown idT this eun sun la Is becom ins ing dreal lully hot it Is 1 unbearable can ion not put up some bind kind of an NN t 11 now I 1 must eay say I 1 was never much of a it hand at such things and coall I 1 call cant t liin Rino what aliat liat one s ta rig 1 up ill cheit nill lit haic have bein a bit of sail in lit the tile boat but one cm ein t see a sign of 0 it I 1 fancy it was smashed elbs 1 loszlo a glance oance at make still aing 11 as n it ho had in his ilia il run k 41 n ess there WAR was a suggestion of power in his bawit shoulders jut ant square jaw Is I 1 he lie bull ln in that must have lave alt lit it off by his this timo time en an I 1 them thern R no more wore in tho the flask nn an BA sa rid reaching over with till hit his foot ho lie pushed against a 8 back huh all right grunted be the tile 1 mpr and bit wit up ill as had AIn winthrope half dind ahn lie stand around hini blin anil and rose I 1 I 1 hl h fitt well what lu in hell sa thie this la Is dinin cheer cheerfull fult I 1 I 1 fanci fanc ftc me oro are in a baet fix butt ut I 1 ea sa ni ili nan tuan there te Is a boman pros cut oat your Inn guage ou on kno mal e turned and fixed tile ho I 1 nueh iran alth fill a cold stare look hiro on blo bloomin binin lud lie said there theres just one thing ouro going to understand right here and nov now I 1 m not our inan mail an all I 1 wo we re not ruing going to hao haie an of that kind of mat liln ter er any fool can see boro in lit a tight wie hole and vero vere alk like to ime p corn com pan un for or a while probably long as we last I 1 N hat ab ah inny I 1 nek ask do you mean by that I 1 wake laughed harshly and pointed from tho the nai to 0 o the mint vast etu tchee elies of desolate des tu inarah nr in lani lant across mika of brac klith lii liboon oon and lits could lie ile seen kiouca of trees ten or twelve miles 0 lo 10 o file he southward a locky headland jutted out into the catir otherwise thero ans nothing in elbet but lint and ecamp if it it could tint properly orly erly ba be a P allow malew it win at least i 1 viry vet met land landscape scale J ine lap ct et biake 1 adril I r 1 inkell eh bo be in luck if it the four don ion t gel got the list of ue its inside a month and an as for yiu two boit oud d have haie ae as much show of 11 a month am a old loid ith a it if it for tom litake di th its ray a rom liliko ako tko anil its n long ae as this ebend jamr oure melco nip to call me tom or 11 alo aho suits hut but un dere der tand stand were not going to liv have an anoro of our bloody bloom bloomin n inglish aboard ship aou ou had bad alio bo drop drol on oil mo me anti conid pile on dor dog till the tile cova come came home botne horo liero liu fat hinko blake and ouro aln n ill rope me mr air Il huttt lallio I 1 bulto ap ho uh ah and now I 1 fane that instead of wasting time it hi about timo you Int introduced e d ino to the m lad interrupts baal 1 and he ot at them halt yet with mith x in hie tile eye eyes alss loable 1 hushed flushed lVin sore softly and bit bin lip aboard still bacich by lad and the captain ho lie had oudom tho the american at lit pleasure ur now however the tile eit sit nation an 1 iloth title and had been sapt away by ibe the and he lie ws w left to shift tor for hinis LIf 11 tho roan mail who had ever reason to nato hato him tor for over hearing insolence InE olence drw forge still both ht hc and misa leslie were now lent tent the tile american in n all bailly for life itself it was a biter 1 ti I 1 III and hard to a swallow allow blake wag was not slow to observe the nan s hesitancy ho lie grinned envery dog hae has hie life day and I 1 guess aei this it to mine h he eald s ild lake our mile it it dolivek co livek abard I 1 can imagine it una s a pretty stiff dose tor for your hut but why ally in why in t ozon gudex an lady should object to an in reduction to a countrymen countryman who X go 1 ing to do hie his level ie el beet beat to lave her tier pretty little self from the hyena well it beata beats ne me winthrope Min ln 1 redder than the birl girl mis bliss leslie mr 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