| Show IRN 0 5 doll ancoli 4 of cu place ct calin cinneri Cn nErI ari ate alei 0 bj ellsworth youn vb by 8 e SYNOPSIS coffin w widow Is 1 bellah ir rage antink uri t f s move from tto to of h her brother flowing ollow ag the death a thorn whom the he had kept ue K I 1 for widower offer otters ma matlage malare lare in and is lapper artly refused cap capt elkanah dan indignantly Ite church otter offers letitia of 0 the sular kalal a I 1 an a housekeeper kr for the minister anil and she he decides dald to remain tv keelah take takes chare chart ot of rv in john hiery 11 ery the nw minister min leter and gives mm a in 9 an to his hi conduct toward we ot of the pariah parish cullery causes a unfit a t n by attending a come corne outer beetling Bi etling ellerba e r y p presence prea fe a e ence n ce is 1 bitter Ithe fan bentel by alben 11 v m r n 0 nd leader 0 of the for her ber orace 9 apologizes act t gu cd ld in sn ILI and id i fiery escorts her home in the ine ra n capt nat at ll ammond abens an ion I 1 OM es a hero by bringing the nd pa e in 0 borc lately through tog s storm storm cilery finds heziah writing a let 1 r in 10 i 1 me MID orn one inclosing moneis mont in re pon to a it demand sit she e la is curiously aled when informed I 1 ot f the of 0 at nat call calls on k keelah beziat I 1 and it develd t it they have been lover lovers since cps anith 0 th panic ther s remonstrates with t latry aley or r at H ling me outer meeting E el acry ry 14 1 c taught il t by the tide and Is I 1 rem raud ue d ty y nr nat th they become friend friends filer fileri in ata et sarae ora e while walk walking ing in the neld fields a ini leir leirvik viR that wo 1 I walk walks there ever every y funda ine clergyman take taken dinner juras tho cantel annabal the tak rib aln aim a daughtry daugh tr r exert exerts herself to alt an impre aslon on him she no he tic a bilth vexation his hi desire to get awa away me wf every sunday at a certain time bhe watches him through a spy py glass nat list ega n imi lm keilah to marry him its H say says he has ban had a quarrel with his hi lather who nt him to marry graco ellary nek asha orace grace to t 0 carrr him she conf as ases that she rie I 1 love 0 ves him but a she ih brors to her guardian ul IN banah daniels daniel tell eben about the meet gnirs between ellery and orace grace ve ciares he nil fit inake make grace choose find b aseen him and tho th preacher grace find s dim in a faint following it excitement at c elkanah visit juit just be re he d dl e 1 aben exact a promise from front nat and gice G ii ice blat they will marry keilah aniki if tie e n new ems to cilery and later he h I 1 received a rote from orace grace saying she he Is lo 10 marry na nat ara asking him not to try te 14 see ie her aaen neziah tells win the acry it her on oan marriage with a man who turned oui to be a rood good for nothing and iho i ho wye mos reported to hae been lost at atit t and of her love for or nat whom i he IB in I 1 marry ln caute tho th husband liu band Is I 1 I 1 tuv alive capsin nat sails ill for manila t I 1 tt te tine tote two mo yere years he lie says he and cra fr a e have dc ec lel tei not to marry marry unlit until be li returns nat ls 1 overdue a an n it Is frare car I 1 tl it at he I 1 lias as ben lost at sea ea hetlan gets it letter from her hu hustind wind minx ming he Is 1 comine back grace roes goes 0 on n a exir sot to re rIat lif 0 the fl I ammond ammonds A icing distress ignata signals Is I 1 discovered a T th coast cilery gos go s with P pirty airty to board the vessel nesb A k anan is found nut ut bering from am pox tho the rest 1 of it the trew having deserted he lie Is I 1 taken to an abandoned johnek on n chore and cilery 1 him he alem it 11 Is I 1 d a covered thit wit he le Is keilah it e huband fl FI lery left alone in to I 1 found ting in n t delirious dell rlou condition by orae ora e bhe she takes him bark back to the panty and mends tor for help heziah and gra cr e nuri nurs 1 iry who la Is surfer inz from train fc fe the doctor and heziah opy pr id ad a ot oil t that grace and allery are stacel APTER Continued jt it one was talking excitedly on t sidewalk beyond the lilac bushel bushes 3 4 border ot of the daniels property proper tr 1 i answered didama rogers nut out cl c hor yard and past the kikuse in he direct direction tun of the be sounds Sai torl to roo and walked down to the rite ite emulous sparrow the fish ped d er was seated in his cart which was surrounded by men and women neigh lors tors ot of the Dantel Danl elees ses there was a perfect storm and questionings and saltars opened the gate nd joined the group A moment later he be came running back up the k toward the piazza caan ho be shouted caan elkan h here heres newel ahat do you think A telegrams just come from nat hammond ilea lies mate and sound in new nt I 1 ork and hell be here day after tomorrow they could not believe it and rueh rush ild out to bear more emulous glow ing a ith importance affirmed that it a to 0 o he ile had been the telegram at tile be store it wits wa for orace grua van iloene 2114 they were lust just going to send nil a boy by over to tu the shanty with it certain elkanan eclied seized batters by tait arm ani atil led him out of the group the be old nuns face was alight with 1349 ae joy and bis his voice shook ith ut atlon 1 tell you one thing it means 11 bisp ered it means the end tt fit 11 erl to far as its bis his marrying her bar Is to concerned ned she gave urd ord to nOrd and shell he 11 keep it she ashes go a liar whatever Ahat ever else bhe she la Is he may mat te minister of the I 1 regular le gular church mb I 1 it nover never tet set under him but eu never marry her now CHAPTER in which a reception Is called off far ar out on the roast there ire etwo two ma islands perhaps a hun bun dred n ilea distant from one another ali 1 crai of there Is uninhabited on tie we other ig is a little colony of eng english s midra f 1 kit 9 people halt breed descend it 1 or I native women omen and the muryll ors cr of a crew crag from a british vessel east aay there tn in we e latter tea put ri of the ib eighteenth century on in tae the first of thee islands the r oae olle the sea hillst bad had been led d driven out of hr hor h r courso by 1 l poon abe he staggered through day filly after day y wad night after night or of terrific torf ani and storm until at last lle avia sobhe omle of fair tr captain C aliat at nearly worn out drou c cre ar and the losa loss of 0 sleep ba annb ne to bis stateroom aej the mu 11 ate wae was in charr charl it was three the be wind still blowing and the tae when the forba J t rt eked a caming breakers Dr tf tb lee the next lj tj stant the ship was as on i n B coral reef lull full of water and the seal seis breiL brewing kIng over her from item stem to stern morning came ani but showed a little patch of land lib ith palm trees and tropical vegetation waving in tk the gusts and in the C captain nat ordered the b boats ats to be low ered much as ho he hated tho the thought he be saw that the sea mist had hid made her last voyage oya e and must be aban boned tie went nent te to the cabin col located paper papers and charts and prepared pre pared to leave the ships money over ten thousand dollars in cold old belonging to the owner and to bo be abed in la trade and find speculation among the fast in dies he be took with him then the difficult and dan dangerous gerou passage through the opening in th the reef was begun only the captain captains s boat boit reached tb the 0 shore the mate mates was as caught by a huge bilge br bunker eiker dashed against the reef and sunk captain nat his second mate and five of his men were all that was left of the sea mist a company and on that island they remained for or nearly two to weeks provisions they had bad brought ashore with them wa ter they found by digging nat hid tho gold at night burying it on the beach below high water mark then having made sure ol 01 bis tits location by consulting the chart be he doto mined to attempt a voyage to the second island where he knew know the english colony to be provisions were getting short and to remain longer where they were vere as to risk tion ad a d all its horrors so in the lon on oai oat which was pro provided sided iab with a sail all they thel started charts and papers and t gold the skipper took with them none of the crow crew knew of the exl existence stence of the money it was a se cret which the captain kept to hini him self sell hundred riles they tailed in the longboat and at last the second and was sighted they landed and found to their consternation and sur prise that it too was uninhabited the cormer former residents had crown grown tired of their isolation and a trading ves yes set el having touched there had seized tho the opportunity to depart for tahiti their houses were vere empty their cat tie cheep sheep goats and fowl roamed wild in the woods and tho the fruit was rotting on the trees in its way the little island waa was an eyeless eden lowing flowing with milk and honey but to captain nat a conscientious skipper with kith responsibilities to his owners it was a prison from which he deter mined to escape then as if it to make escape impossible a sudden gale came up and the longboat was vias by the surf 1 guess that settles it ruefully obier observed ved the second mate anoche cape from hyannis cal late well e 11 stay here for a spell now hey bey caan for a spell yes replied nat well stay bare until we get mother another craft to set ball sail in and no longer I 1 another cra craft ft another one onet where in time ou coln to get her build her eald said captain nat cheer fully then pointing to th abi row of compty house houses and the little deserted church he added there Il leros timber and nalla nails yes and choti such Is Us it I 1 cant build a boat out of them ill agree to eat the whole settlement ett lement he lie did not have to eat it for the boat wax was built it took them six all months to build her and she was a curious looking vessel when hen done but as the skipper eald said she may not be a clipper but shell sail 11 anywhere it you give her time enough he ile bad had been the guiding of the whole enterprise planning it laying the keel turning hirning buildings to obtain nail nails and iron hewing trees for the largest teams showing them low tow to spin IF IT L A A heu hell never mirry her now roecs from fiber ca caarls aras the longboat galls alls from pieced out bilth blanket blanke tv and odd bits of cloth from the abandoned how even A strip of carpet from the charah foor went into the making T of those sails A t last she he wa was done lit nt was we cat bever 1 I never ever com commanded minued a ship where I 1 couldn t hut h ut yankee color colors be ald said and arid by ho the I 1 ont now low NN e to got to have a flag tag so from an old aid pair ot of blue overa all a hittl cotton shirt shift and the red hanging bat on tho church pulpit he lie made a mag and hoisted it to the truck of hie his queer command they provisioned bar ler gave her a liberal supply ot of freih freh fre ih water and one morning she passed through the opening ot of the la Is eoon out to the deep blue ot at the pa ila cefic 1 and hidden bidden in her captain captains stateroom under under the held bed ot of hia his bunk waa was the ten thousand dollar dollars gold for nat had worn sworn to himself by the everlasting and other oath to de tie lher that money to his hi new york owner owners safe and necessary ti pentes deducted of course untouched for seven weeks the crazy nondescript lopped slopped across aero the ocean mur wind winds helped her and at lat last she he entered the b harbor abor of over twelve hundred miles away and there Hani moade luck the bailor sailors called etwas it a united states manof man of war lying at anchor the first ameri amert can to touch at that little french settlement tor for five ears the beat they built win wai abandoned and the survivors of the sea alst were dauen on beird the man odwar and carried ried to tahiti from tahiti laplain nat took pa on a french bark for honolulu here after a months wait alt he be found 0 opportunity to leave tor for new york on an american ship the stara stars and stripes and finally after being away from homo home for two ye beirs kra be he walked into the office of his new york own era ers deposited their gold on a table and cheerfully observed well here I 1 ambut did not hear bear the yarn immediately all that it heard beard and all that it knew as contained in captain brief telegram arrived today in ill be home thursday that was all but it 11 waa was enough for in that dispatch was explosive quill sufficient clent to blow to atoms the doctor doctors plans and keziah a the great scheme which waa was to bring happiness to john ellery and grace van home dr parker heard beard it lt while on his way to mrs stra princes prince a and neglecting that old lady for the once ho he turned his horse and drove as fast as POW lie to the shanty on the beach fast as ho he droe captain zebedee 1130 got there ahead of him rantain zeb was hitching bis his white and ancient steed to the post as the doctor hove bove in tight dy by mighty might the captain exclaimed with a sigh olgh ct of relief I 1 I 1 in glad enough youve you ve come doctor I 1 bated hated to go in n there alene youve you ve heard beard of at course say tint ala t it wonderful onder full I 1 I 1 im in tickled all up ono elde side and u harry all down t other a true blue feller teller and ard I 1 m glad enough that ho he aint shark bait but nihat about the minis ter ani ant her shea promised prom sed to nat you know are you galal to tell mr bir ellery T certainly not and I 1 hope be t been told iles getting well fast now but he austia t be worried or back hell he 11 go again we must fee gee mrs coda keziah Is our main hold that woman has cot more sense than all the rest of us nut flut together but it was grace not keziah who opened the shanty d jr in answer to their knock she was pale and greet ed them calmly but it was evident that her calmness was the result of will power poser wont you come in doctor doc torl she asked good afternoon captain mayo dr parker entered the building but captain zeb remained outside stammering that he cal collated bed better stay bere he could keep an eye on blu borso horse this was such a trana trans parent excuse that it would have been funny at any other time no one smiled no bovi however ever Is Is mrs coen er aboard the captain asked no she isn L 1 he vent went to the parsonage a few hours ago mr bir ellis brought the mall mail and there as a let ter in it for her he she said 14 it was tj and that she must go borne home to see about some things algell be back pretty soon I 1 suppose parker found his patient f eang deping soundly and had dot not disturbed him returning turning lle to the living room he spoke lo 10 graca Huni pU be he grunted watching her bar from under his big brows everything seems to be alt all right la in thore there K austn t be told anything that will up get set him hes iles getting well fast and I 1 want it to continue yes I 1 understand hum er have bays you heard has anone an one been here yes yen I 1 have beard T the he telegram came and I 1 answered it you did well its it a miracle and were all thankful of at cours 3 die did you brer er er doctor I 1 mast must go home I 1 stay here au n longer you know why not I 1 must ba b at 1 I home when he comes you must bet get some one to take nay my place aunt kellah will a stay tay of co i re and perhaps mrs airs att d coe I ayat tiny through tomorrow at any rote rate nat not won von t get hero bete until thura jay and I 1 may way be able to find and t I 1 cr er nurse by that time shall eay say to him toward the other room it X dont know fol 01 ray anything f duct say may that I 1 atte been called 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