Show t i Marked Man vA eA Romance o of the Great Lakes B By Y KARL W. W DETZER W. W N. N U U. Sm rv Copyright by hi Th h. Bobba Co CHAPTER XI Continued XI-Continued Continued 13 13 r The old businesslike vigor hail had returned returned re re- returned turned to her voice Norman obeyed He tie slept atey After Arter ten minutes be he awakened awak uk ened erred screaming and found Sue he him She pushed his hands buck back un nn under uner der er the blankets blanket all nil right she told him soothingly youre home Norman r Sue returned grimly to the parlor parity and related to her tier fattier father the events enl of the day Captain Stocking WJ was pacing the green carpet before she hp fin fint t fished At the last wore he stalked uthe to u the hall and twisted the crank of ot IMP tw telephone savagely You Josiah Parish Sue heard him cry Well rell If you dont don't cp cef here bere quick and take this of If n It Baker home sure your man I Aye your number seven man I IBe He Be returned to the room growling padded across the floor and pushed oJ open Cn the window A Inn Irin tern Jiggled up the bench beach Evidently the coast guard commander wn was run ning Captain Stocking met mer him at or atthe atthe orthe the door Parish scowled as he strode In hi hl Ills l peaked face tace was hard as a u carved figurehead Sue talked to him rapidly In a n voice olce only once onre lifting her hands bands from her lap That time she hp pointed at Baker Doker The keeper crum grum crumbled bled to himself now and then Cap ap Captain tale tain Parish walked the floor Once he lie exclaimed aloud Wheres Erickson i he be asked Hes In bed Captain Sue an nn i Dont squall you'll VU wake nuke ke him You Yon was drinkin Parish turned to Baker take much No man o 0 mine takes take s a n drink on duty twice Saml SamI near Hear that Baker Yes SIr He lie hears It Saml And AncI you hear hem this Erickson pitched him Nina overboard Aye that's what Miss Swan Susan said Well V to drown a man aint mv my Idee o 0 decent goings goings on on In this bust bus ness You better get gel rid of Erich son SOD Captain Stocking stamped the floor Dont say It Josiah I Dont Don't say It I IGo IGo IGo Go to bed Sue No Ill I'll talk If It you yuu dont don't mind This here Baker Daker hes he's a u thief a lie I l Baker Daker answered sourly Spike your winch Inch 1 I ordered CUrt Ca tain tamn Stocking lies Hes a thief and Ill I'll II go It before any Judge you got gal gota gala a mind to ask down And be Insults Insults- my ray girl And he goes after the bo hoy with a 0 knife like he was wusI a I i trout A After eter my boy I 1 sa say 0 after tt ErIckson Him Himl I Me get rid of I son Heres Here's a 0 toad you'd best pet get rid rill of ot Josiah and quick at nt that If you dont don't Baker cold sober stood up He Ul- glanced defiantly at Sue and und her fa father father ther there uncertainly at his Iris commander Its a put up be he complained a u put put up up Job Ill I'll tell you what Captain Cap Cup tale tain Parish My words word's good as us his every bit and good as a girls girl's When It comes to that business about Delong Delong Delong De- De long 1 I see what happened to his pa pers ErIckson took emIll emIll emlU em Ill lU tell you yon what happened to night I 1 worked hard all day duy you yon saw M me Capt n. n Come COlne dark I went vent down to the duck dock down to get gel geta u a sleep Howd How'd 1 know It was Erickson's Erick sons son's boat He saw me we there Never teel waked me up Out they started darted with whit me shut up in the cabin I know what whal t they hey planned I heard em era They The schemed to dump me over middle r uthe o u othe the lake and nobody on shore the wiser 1 tooled fooled em I 1 1 I fought em enl both lUth 1 I Parish Pariah nodded savagely sa With great dl dignity he be stalked to the cor cur Captain Stocking tipped hl his head and squinted after them In the lour Parish turned about No need Deed me e. e U up In the mid amid lie Ille of the night nigh he toe complained Ill III be he down town In the morning SomI Saml Goodnight Good Good- nl night ht Night yourself Stocking an an CHAPTER XII XII i If the Wind Blows Norman awakened Sunday morning b with a fever Three days four tour a d week he be lay In his tied bed Doctor Mc Ml McCarthy Carthy summoned train from across th the dunes prescribed rest and forbade absolutely any auy return to Madrid Bu Buy Baj for tOT Gustaf ErIckson's funeral In his bis cheerless room on the assistant Keepers Keeper's sl side te of the house Norman at the ceiling and tou fought off delirium His mind was clouded Doubts grief misgivings self reproach reproach and a miserable ble tease reuse of futility clogged his thoughts He dreamed tit dt nt fully ot of Gustaf That he had bad died be he lIe his son eon unfaithful to an un lion Iron heritage was the core of every er dream Again and again awakening from deep feverish sleep he be shrank from the of his red flanner 1 blankets Like fur they felt like the wet matted fur of ot a drowned dug dog u He dreamed a dozen times that he was a 8 little bo boy lighting Eddie Baker In tire the I dusty road remd above Madrid He Be tiered something about a 8 little girl named Julie Finally he dreamed of that hat stormy day In ID June when his hIE hiss s cried Get out ant there's theres too thO much e In you you I 1 Get out and dont don't t come ba bai i i r H Sl Susan n talked to tu hits him sternly tt I In hl hl- hl half IIII Youve proved cel t slip she hl would iii say olY again am an nIIa u Ir knows It IL NOW Ill g 1 10 In o sleep Norman a. a I heel Deep cl in III Iris Ins 11 o n II heart Norman reid read Knottier lIer proof 1 What 1 f tie Ie had started tm out nut to Io recur tau tuo C men in ill II the linen What If ii the people Madrid Ba Ki slid lid not UtI consider him a coward card longer anger lie still wa unproved i fc lt elf I i he great test laid hall nut not yi v PI i eUl curve come II e the test on un the wide water evaders of 41 Lake Michigan In 10 storm What Iut would he lie do till then folk hurled buried Gu OU hll sun son h hi in the Ille little lithe cemetery on Oil iii II the hills hark back ot of Madrid Bay ily Julie who stood close cluse ro to lames I likened II 1111 IIII to ret the tile thai thu were wen read i 11 t er I Norman Erickson IIII's s father Hoi tears tears when they 1111 fell we fur for s sake all aUe When faithful Jim Nelson Nelna IIII stepped forward el al tit lI the Hie end and put pin pinn II n handful ot mt stones s in the rue hill box with It Ii his Ills shipmates shipmate's body tulle Julie exclaimed unable to 10 land Laud unlit add drew Inset to James I Delong's Delongs fa e had fund become Je leaner in inthe inthe the tew Hw days Ili Ills his lips were dm u II lighter Julie had bud recovered from her liei aversion tt to flue rhe lawyer lawver Site She even re rt with him I when heu I. I lie hili I Mussel himself for tin the flood Captain talk I over tt to Copperhead road rood the Ile Iu following iii JI lay day begged ti II i rid and attended II the funeral of nt Fritz clou He Ili hunted humid out nut lulle lulie at aria to her hel frillier father after the rill Ics er cs unu un told fold them taut dial lIr usua ln insisted l el that they visit II the lighth h uise l' l the rile next Sunday hut hull one Norman would be he hull all ull right by 11 then Julie Jull promised James I Delong accompanied tier 1 statue and hl his tin daughter tight er when they waded over the dunes dirties to tu the flit light lIt He Ile e explained that lint tie hUll haul met urel them on III the rill run road d. d lord had sent Ieter 1 hack hackwith with their team Lenin und and brought theta them himself in III his hh car still distrusted James Jaures Delung De Delong Delung lung long not so much us as he lu haul had hut hUI enough h. h What do you do with the flue III cJ L hole now he lie asked ed Insult The Tie little lake Delong's Delongs u big face tUll do darkened Im gulag going to ru clean deun out oUI the till butt bottom am ah HIll am sod If it down dawn Mr Norman wanted waited Ill at or the tile tower Ower door dam He Be had not noi s jon tn Julie since the evening e 01 or the Hood two weeps weeks II It been She had seemed close to him then tIn tier Her Impulses un oer the stress ot of that hut days day's I excite te excitement meat ment certainly had bud smacked ol 01 sortie some something tiring thing besides the hills hula Julie was al ul always always wu ways s 's faithful to him She was like Mm Sirs Nelson elon In III that h ho hc s believed she slip would consent now flay to anything he II lIk asked d her to do Captain IJ Stocking dropped asleep In Irl Iris Ills chair choir soon SHon after ufler the guests ar nr arrived arrived rived rl his daughter and James Jumes De Delong Delong Delung long lung retired to the hammock Norman felt lI light hl of heart as he h. showed Julie and her ber father about the re resplendent flent and orderly reserva reser Ion tIon Julies Julie's and ond uhs de rip delighted delighted lI lighted himI him I 1 like It If 1 she cried Oh not to tn live here but bur to see once Its It's so clean 1 I 1 dont don't like white paint Ger Her moIne growled It gets too loo dirty flirty How much longer do du you CH stay here Norman 7 he asked When are you OU earning coming back to land l I 1 dont don't know Norman answered vaguely He raised his blue eyes to tu Julies Julie's black buck ones It depends on o a good many things Perhaps Ill I'll not nor come back ever eyer He lit sat sut with Julie on an the steps that first afternoon and confessed that he was afraid ol ul storms sturms Ueal Iteal storms And she bad had laughed at him tutu t She had bad warned him never neer to tell un anyone one else He ge changed erl the subject quickly He Ue felt fell sure sure In his tris Ira heart that Julie would con consent consent consent sent to he asked She Sir run ran Impulsively down the line ot of wet rocks that swung In u a narrow el off orT uie te tip o. o the point out tear var ar arthe the submerged stone ledge ot of Blind BlindMan's Mans Irons Inn Teeth She waited for tor Norman thou then submitted to being red led down tf to tt the rh beach an un along the III thai reared shave above the lake The They clime came to a 8 heap of ot stones stolle where here the flue water shelved off deeply there rhey they sat down faring facing the broad horizon They did not nelt speak uk at ur first It II- was as aft If It the Immensity ol of the tame commanded silence as 88 if It II It speed speech How long they sat sal thus neither one uric ot ut them thew Knew And Anti Mien Ilten r Norman heard a soun sound that he mistook at 01 first tot fot Inu laughter When he turned he discovered tears upon tulles Julies cheeks Why Juliet Julie I Im sorry Norman But It makes me rte cry all this She waved waed her hand despairingly ly at ul atthe atthe the horizon at the Jubilant waters be he her feet pel She Sire glanced u up UI at atthe tile the round rounel sky Her gaze became fixed upon Its IIi II emptiness Ss und sad Norman un unable able utile to understand grew troubled 1 The he rake could make one on love loe It ii or hate It whichever ver It chose iose I It Is too rots big for tor one ne girl girt l I Julie explained and wiped her cheeks She Impetuously It U Is very airier did I begin to see zee I 1 do see seeby seeby seeh h by rather your loved It Norman accepting her mood tried reason It out OUI for Cur himself I I 1 dont don't know whether It Is splendid splendid did or not Julie he be said hesitantly I 1 dont don't know whether I love It or ur hate It Once Oure In a while I hate It not Dot often otten now You must not I But If It I do Perhaps I am turn like my mother Julie She didn't wish to toI I I live by hy the water wafer She wanted my father r to tel farm furor I t could farm aria tulle Julie The words wards hunted burned In his mouth Fn Farm 7 she RIle spoke Incredulously Is Henri to forty 11 still vacant n t 7 NH Erickson 1 I She stood on nn the rocks rucks struggling for fur balance y You Yon Oil must nul noi rl think 1111 of that thou 1 I But tut I cant can't ash a u k l. you to 10 live h hv I the I. I water Not since you have cried I IUS Ius Iwas US was to roo tulle Julie I II II c here now out on onlIe these lIe l. l r r- r ks I WUI going gains lIln to II ask asU I you on If you JOIl d cI ever pel love lure me enough to to- live here IlIn at rut tile the light You Visa unit t not liCIt ask lIk met me I I run can an nn wet without I that hat No Nil Norman Till This Is not nul fur for rise lie I am an traits from the tilt land tad Illel UK ha hack k ro 10 the unit Ian I I go JO It II I Is In lu uric me sand and rr trees pj unit and II hills Ills It l Is in III no guy I taunt help It I go u hack brick v her I belong tug N. N Norman ruin n. n Then lisin I go JU tun tool cIol I INo No J II iii u cannot There 1 I. I is I wind in in l Ind Wind II raid and II e the till broad broadwaters 1 waters II Here ere Is your our home here h luy 11 the die shore It I Is nut not for far u us to tu talk tull It If was decided for tor us It w f not Ilot 1 I dont don't bel believe h e It I 1 IIII Ills III voice he Ill knew In lu Ids his heart that for fat him him nt at least II ll hurl had eels ecu I 1 can make you hap hup i ly on s a farm l lland land Don t. t Norman I I would not h he ha happy III 0 anywhere w n. her If It I 1 knew you cu were erl I 1 r w ym s. s z How Long The They Sat Thus Neither One of Them Knew not where you You belon belong here It l Is decided derided Julie stud said firmly firm ly Iy I 1 fco go and you stay atay tay I will not nor cry no I will not 1 I I She turned her hack halK to film and ano peered Intently at ot the vast 1 distance There Th re are girls meant for tOt th the lake she said ald I 1 am nut ant one of them Sue Stocking Is She Site Is horn burn to live by water So are you Nor Nur man No r no Julie I Hut But yes Finality put pu a stiff stilT edge edl to her tier voice oft She Sire Is a u line girl 1 Norman Norman Nor Nur man mun She will make you ou H a good wife I hove have my own future It Is not with you no no ool 1 Before he could speak again before before be fore he could reach rench out hl his hand she was WIlS running over the rocks rok fleeing from the water and ond from him He Hen lunged n after herNo herNo herNo her No no Tulle Julie he called you are wrong She reached the lighthouse ahead ot of him Germaine grumbled as Norman caught raught up with them Do you yuu sit on the rhe hard hurd rocks for forever ever eyer he asked Come It I Is time timeto to do chores time we start borne Will you come orne hack hock next nest Sunday Norman ft asked Come orne to 10 dinner Sue suggested and you Mr Delong lelong f Captain Stocking waking from trum lib his nap heard his daughters daughter's I invitation Nut Not next Sunday he forbade I 1 dont don't want wont company ne next t Sunday It'll storm Twenty third o 0 Septembers September's the equinox Jame turned trait from an ab nb sent minded stare across the wiper water His face was sober as It had been III JY Ii It does drle sometimes storm sturm on the tile he argued hat so su It Ir does on n l ot other her days It'll hove have to rn blow mighty hard to keep me mp way nv Shell blow 1 I the keeper kooper answered In th the opinion of at It Cup Clip talu tulu Su I IJo to prepare 1 fora for fill II a mead to polish h with wit II g tr iii ties taking piece plc e of h on un th the lighthouse tl n II No Nornan Numan was up rip to his bis elbows lu In stati md when Steve Sf Sutton at arrived tAd a at r five Uve I. I olur Ic bringing a 8 ti h for ur IP he Kjer's ifs Kj- gers p g ers er's l supper rom From the lire post past I In Madrid he hp brought ht A n letter to Nor Nur Norman man mun who retired to the skin skiff to ex ei amine limine It With something like ra rage e hut but nine moie e elike like paralysis he lie reul read It twice Should he |