Show the U tin 0 I 1 of P the th e at CHAPTER X continued 12 then im afraid ivo ive got a bit of bad b ad news for or you soi 11 he told her by what means the letter had fallen I 1 nto into I 1 his bli hands you maj may think it was I 1 albot strictly honorable and 1 I suppose it but I 1 had mary to think about and something told me I 1 ought to in the end be glad too she read it through and handed it back shei she i wondered that ifer her hand could be so steady and her face so inscrutable yetla yet in her ber heart she was saying baying 1 I can never be truly happy again no matter how long jong the years ot of my life the note was addressed simply andy ormi orme dear andy it began the use of qu i lir proui about the rodway radway woman now I 1 was wrong rong w to be co 0 savage enrage about it but im not the cold calculating type like you we reed you tp to take the yacht to union if you dont it means back to san quentin fo for you tor for we shall surely be reported and a search made if fight tor for her when we get to 0 B R im willing until then let us make peace answer immediately HERMAN METZGER 1 I told the boy to come back in halt half an hour he will know enough to convince you if this sufficient clent ill bring him in a here and we can c cross examine him 11 1 what ithai do you want to do mrs badway asked in a strained and eife 11 voice mary marv look looked edat at lier her with a sympathy Bym pathy she dared not show she really loved him thought the wise mary get the doctor in here and make him i answer todd thought the think thing was obvious when were through with him well hear bear the boy bob fetch betch him the moments of waiting were the bitterest that any hour ofa of a life in which sorrow had I 1 seldom been absent of late years had bad brought evelyn caaway the foundations of her falth faith were shaken she could not understand onder i der stand nd by what miracle of self session she was able to cola control irol herself gelfand self fand and compose her ber features so that the abe others did not see her secret written 1 there bettington was looking pale and tired there was a dull pain in his right side which had grown worse since his struggle with sam it was some gome wrenched sinew he be supposed be tried not to let it be seen ot of anthem ithem all mrs radway saw he got BU this thistle the asked es saying cheerfulness A council of defense although he addressed addres his words br I 1 deto to evelyn radway she did not answer but her face alone showed no emotion crosby brosby todd had triumph written on his with a i tinge of malle malice in it it bob felt and ex pressed expressed contempt he was angry with himself for having ad efured mired the man and mary looked at him as one might gaze at some creature of whom deadly qualities are pointed poInte dout out bettington dropped into ta a chair wearily this was to be one more exhibition of dodds todds tod ds absurdity it seems im od on trial again be caid the pertinacious todd my accuser bettington i looked ground around and the jury ready to convict why do you call yourself doctor walte waite when it i your name bettington felt bl himself flushing like ii a boy detected openly in falsehood ne lie knew his bis accuser felt he bid bad scored ed a point i what ts Is my name he demanded til 1311 admit it walte waite your name Is in andy orme todd cried usually ready in any ar oy of the emergencies e normal men are called on 0 ato to meet bettington himself utterly unprepared for this his face showed bowed it IL there was confusion written on it and for a moment helplessness aiesi riesi and despair all that he intended titell to tell them prefacing it with I 1 the story of his bis abduction now useless they would believe it all part of the monstrous chain of excuses he be had woven to lull lul suspicion it orme elther either hean he answered swe red better hear the whole thing from the beginning he was amazed at mrs lla divas jud suddenly denly changed attitude spare us that safe said never had ad be seen her look so cold and unapproachable she bad learned in the space of a few seconds that the man roan she hid bad idealized was indeed a member of this crew of crime she bad no longer any an y feelings of her own to consider she must mail look after mary unwin she reached for the folded letter that lay on the able able before todd i may I 1 see that letter Bett betting Lag ton ion asked he read it iland n na then angered them by bt smiling now at least he knew why he was ivas prejudged this Is good news on the whole he remarked theres a chance of caving sivi ng you for what evelyn radway asked r for any use you may choose to put your life I 1 mean 1 I think I 1 can get you too to io savannah if mr todd can be as quick to in an emergency as I 1 be la is with his bis tongue and the other lad will risk it we may be able to seize eize the ship and leave mary and mrs radway without protection todd glared achim at him angrily such a ruse was too not goop good enough ino tigh he BY WYNDHAM MARTYN cortright IN THE ual 0 sen lc said sarcastically tica ily doctor whatever you call yourself id like ike H 6 tell you W my real tin name me bettington said rising a from the chair 1 wholly unconscious of dodds todds ahrea threatening benl g gesture Y you wont believe it now why tell it then todd retorted bettington kept kepi his temper emper with an effort I 1 because some day I 1 when 11 heo we get out or of this ti I 1 ship I 1 shall be able to remind you I 1 gave you the to bellee believe find and you would not does it matter eveeyn as asked ked rigidly not very ery much rm m afraid to you j but its important to me im a paint er by profession pr ofelon as I 1 tili think he be lieve I 1 was at harv harvard ard with the father fathe r of these unwin children as they can ond octif out if they put me to the tes test L he would recognize me ashow ard bettington he did before they burled buried Y you ou boh bob broke in irlue triumphantly n chantly ph antly he re how broken up his father had bad been at the sad gad death of his old friend was this mani man never to make a likely statement theres nothing will make us believe you even evea if af we wanted to mary looked it at him with deeper horror in her eyes than bob had shown site she remembered how he had led her ta 9 talk of at her father he had bad I 1 seemed so interested in him that she had chattered all sorts of t irl intimate mirte details which he had t treasured rea up to bolster this attempted imposition bettington looked at them wearily they were willing to believe him guilty of almost any crime but to all that was true they turned deaf un on friendly ears he shrugged his shoulders and moved toward the door all right ill see you get enough food 1 I suppose no advice edvice of alii mine is iv welcome elcome but remember your ultimate safety depends almost entirely on mi my efforts and I 1 dont propose to be hampered 1 by any childish actions of young heroes line like j you on you two are to remain here cantli atell I 1 tell you otherwise youre taking a who whole lelot lot on you yourself todd said ahk angrily rily where flo do you 94 get your authority 2 by the right of being the strongest m man an on this ship and the most desperate bettington glar glared edat at crosby todd in such a way that the younger you riger man felt the element of personal tear fear possess him 1 I 1 im am engaged single handed in an e effort fro rt io to bring you to savannah and I 1 wont ha have veany any more scenes like these ive stood enough from iou you all when I 1 give my signal three double raps let me be admitted instantly see thit that some one is on guard night alghi and day his heart was full of bitterness they would not even give him a achan chance ce to explain evelyn radway had changed utterly he had bad imagined that from her a spirit of fairness might be expected always we bought ought not botjo to have let him go 90 todd said eald when they heard hearM the bulk head close we I 1 ought to have held him as a hostage mrs redway radway thought she had come to the popular way of thinking wis was not no reconciled to her new leader Y you 0 u would be a child in his hia hands sh she said contemptuously cant you understand that yet bilyou if you otili believe in kra him todd said there Is a anew new chance to prove youage you are wrong chis boy silvers Sliver ought sought to be back if he meet orme ril put him through the third degree and you an can ask what questions you like it so 0 happened that the furtive slivers missed the ahe surgeon andt and came rapping at the steel door there was no necessity to put wm him through a severe cross examination he ha bad d that dramatic sense which finds jig its in publicity what he had not heard and what he be did not under stand about the motives of the crew he be amplified and hardly guessed he was waa lying sure hes one of em sald the boy eagerly him an the ateward ar d was the bosses his names orme he was waa a murderer and forger who broke san and killed a prison guard they I 1 say he be was a big doctor doctor in new york once the ponies was his bis ruin them an the wheel evelyn radway was the only one ot them who remembered the trial otia of a celebrated celeb rated surgeon of brilliant parts and good family be had bad killed the man who wai was threatening to prosecute him for forging a check and tills this was the inan man who bad just gone from them promising safety I 1 we ought to know how many wany men there are 0 on n board she declared and how their sympathies are surely they cant all be bid bad slivers silvers shook his head bead knewt knowingly angly a pretty hard bunch the steward he picked lem em cause t they hey were tough and held hed got the goods on eaf em afraid togo to go back who killed captain hallett halletts Hallet tV todd demanded he saw aw evelyn avelyn roadways Rad waya ways face ace grow whiter as an tie he asked it it sam said bald slivers instantly sam Is in some shot say be added do you know why the ste steward steinard ivard stood there and laughed at the cap like lie he did hed made hamner frisk him first hamner got the gun the cap had in him bli hip pocket but he be 1 never hed he d puck clar cap ri aled edone one up tip on his hii heist chest tooled fooled hamner hn inner 1 want the names ot of the rest of the crew mrs said I 1 I 1 slivers silvers was ready rt adv and willing milling t to 0 I 1 help belt Mety Wetz gers the first ahert theres Per etra the cook conk K enzie makes three Grau matin ner and antil krause six aint aln t it mike tb the deck handis hand Is seven und nd doc eight there are two men oon cown there avlo with kenzie or some thin tike like thit just forel eners aljo dmit dian know ao 60 no states chevre 1 hey re ed to come up countin Count la me theres eleven you two fellers swell chaine you jouve v got I 1 why should berei we re gonyou hon you as j one ot of them mrs I 1 asked ant you see the hariper af being with itai men like that when viled we 1 get t back to new york but we alu agnf t said silvers sagely shuts the dla 1 fenre we were I 1 re goin 0 0 ow suits suite me anzle bald carelessly all right elgh cap to someplace some place in ln central america I 1 told the doe doc I 1 was a neutral tell teil me about kenzle kenzie mrs rad ltd way said she remembered that the second engineer had not struck her as being the same game depra depraved ved sort is as his superior slivers was ready as usual it seemed that no crimes crimea of blood were laid to henzies Kenz Ken les door his conflict with the law was of a big anions amous nature wives sIn in many ports clamored far or him film for the rest he was i a quiet man now engrossed in the adoration of perfect mach machinery slivers considered Meiz metzger ger I 1 graumann krause and hamner to be bad men capable of any anything think mike was easily led and the doctor asked todd lies hes playing a deep game said eald the lad Metz gers afraid of 4 him the lad saw he was upon delicate ground new conventions hedged him around here I 1 in n the presence of the I 1 desired woman woman hi he dared not recount thi the precise reasons for Metz gers jealousy but when he left be he could have rendered bettington oo no greater disservice xe he bad painted him as the sinister and dominating figure who brooded blooded ov over erthe the strange cruise of the alba albatross t ross betraying now qualities of hae honesty ty and courage and then moods of baffling violence and rage it wai was this sense of contrast which most appealed to the boy augustus condon candon well Nl ell crosby todd said when tie he had gone 1 I suppose theres no ques mon that my y suspicions were correct corrects his words were aimed solely at mrs Il radway adway 1 11 I am afraid not she said gild auf but theres therea oo no evidence yet that we ve shall suffer buffer any harm from him he knows I 1 am ready enough to pay any ransom tie he demands 0 in th the luxurious quarters aft bet hington came upon matzger and pereira sprawling on the great wicker chairs well said eald B ettington your proposition you read the tetter letter in which you askine ash me to take you to toa a convenient place where you aan can signal to a pilot and then get rid of me I 1 knew very well tah thai 11 was what sim sam meant and I 1 know inow you two pre pie clous birds haven have the some same idea here are my terms III HI take fake you to landin i tn toy own way I 1 will have nobody on the upper decil dt ck 1 11 f you have men to ebare sp are we use them for stoking I 1 shall not leave the 06 puso but who will take a spell when you sleep leep ill get that boy bob up if you want me send a message by slivers when hi he brings tood food youve open that im able to take care of myself f well ril rii treat either of you just as I 1 did sam 41 if you as much put pui your toot on the main companion the twain protested but in thet the end they gave in bettington had heard no fearsome stories of violence where kenzie was waa conc concerned irnee het he rem remembered embere d that the y 11 i the Il libit of marrying in in nian man wa t and ro re leave of SM be a his it in haste ko 0 such charges gretting trebled edthe the others other S W r in as more abut he f feared e ared vred I 1 waiting wives wires lull 1111 terrors said gild bettington im in control i you can ill all toh hj tm in 1 I 1 wiit have you en enough 0 ugh help give nie me these hinkles hun kles kenzle kenzie au an we ive got tiered sw tw pred ered word by lf if you nt ann send allowing wy any im not the b buy slivers silvers oneco the upper deac I 1 carelessly suits me li kenzle said all right CW cap to urging his men lie he was Is lie he cared little mint ali at went actie alty ity on outside his province immediately w went ent tg 9 the n e tt ington barred dour and rapped as he hadar ranged rage d tudd todd let him in them let bet 1 I ve ninde ter terms ms with im to take unstop an ijo charge N hody Is allowed on the upper deck I 1 need help ive selected lob bob what am I 1 to do doboe bov Bob asked take your turn at the lie wheel and wake make me if you see or hear anything suspicious sleep up there so bring ball the kit necessary As tor for yo you a here and never desert todd you stays your post for a moment 1 loald said I 1 had maiac i terms with th them em only them for the partly Y true ive forced with me moment mum ent tu to agree start plotting in a few h hours ours socon bocon elhue to be on the watch under no condition should you go outside this barof part of the ship mrs hailway It adway when the ti time me comes that its safe you will be told slivers Is a kind of 0 official cj a I 1 messenger you can use him it if necessary when the doctor left them crosby todd was especially vehement in his denim denunciation clation of the scheme that robbed them of 01 bob you dont think bobs in ID danger mar mary Y demanded not exactly that but dont you see he wants to |