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The Wingham Times, 1909-08-26, Page 7TSE Vi�lN&JIAli1 TIMES, AUGUST 26 19Uv 7 1 Ti -m MYSTERY BD STEWART EDWARD WHITE And SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS COPYRIGHT, 1907• BY McCLURE. PHILLIPS & CO. ed by the light. The keg stood solid and substantial, the hub about which reeled the orgy. At the edge of the wash I could make out something prone, dim, limp, thrown constantly in new positions of weariness as the water ebbed and flowed beneath it, now an arm thrown out, now cast back, as though Old Scrubs slept fe- verishly. The drunkards were getting noisy. Handy Solomon still reeled off the verses of his song. The others joined in, frightfully off the key or pus `Rated tho performance by wild .stt •• oto yells. 4 - coffin was their ship, and their avo it was the sea, 1 v high, blow low; what caro we! At .he quarter that we gave them was to sink them in the sea, Down on the coast of the high Bar - bare -e -e," bellowed Handy Solomon. I turned and plunged into the cool darkness of the canyon. CHAPTER XXI. r EN seconds after entering the arroyo I was stumbling along in an absolute blackness. It almost seemed to me that I could reach out my hands and touch it, as one would touch a wall, or per- haps not exactly that, for a wall is hard, and this darkness was soft and .yielding, in the manner of enveloping hangings. Directly above me was a narrow, jagged and irregular strip of sky with stars. I splashed in the brook, finding its waters strangely ;warm, rustled through the grasses, my head back, chin out, hands extended as one makes risway through a house at night. Therie wentsounds ex- ;eept the tinkle ''bop. sulphurous stream. Successive bei in the can- ,}, .yon wall had shut off even the faint- est echoes of the bacchanalia on the beach. The way seemed much longer than Eby daylight Already in my calcula- tion I had traversed many times the distance, when with a jump at the heart I made out a glow ahead and in front of it the upright logs of the stockade. To my surprise the gate was open. I ascended the gentle slope to the val- ley's level and stumbled over a man lying prostrate, shivering violently and moaning. I bent over to discover whom it might be. As I did so a brilliant light seemed to fill the valley, throwing an illumination on the man at my feet. I saw it was the nigger and perceived at the same instant that he was almost beside himself with terror. His eyes rolled, his teeth chattered,` his frame contracted in a strong convulsion, and the black of his complexion had faded to a washed out dirty gray, revolting to contemplate. He felt my touch and sprang to his feet, clutching me by the shoulder as a man clutching rescue. "My Gawdl" he shivered. "Look! Dar it is again!" . He fell to pattering in a tongue un - `known to me—charms, spells undoubt- ,edly to exorcise the devils that had hold of him. I followed the direction • of his gaze and myself cried out. The doctor's laboratory stood in plain sight between the two columns • of steam blown straight upvitard through the stillness of the evening. It -seemed bursting with light. Every little crack leaked it in generous .streams, while the main illumination ,appeared fairly to bulge the walls out- ward. This was in itself nothing ex- traordinary and indicated only the ac- tivity of those within, but while I look- ed an irregular patch of incandescence suddenly splashed the cliff opposite. I+or a single instant the very substance •of the rock glowed white hot Then from the spot a shower of spiteful flakes shot as from a pyrotechnic and the light was blotted out as suddenly ;as it came. 'Diseased at t air At the same moment, another point, exhibited the same phenomena, died, flashed out at still a third place, and so was repeated here and there with bewildering ra- pidIty until the walls of the valley crackled and sleat sparks. Abruptly the darkness fell. As abruptly it was broken again by a similar exhibition, only this time the fire was blue. Blue was followed by purple, purple by red. Then ensued the briefest possible pause, in which a figure moved across the bars of light escaping through the chinks of the laboratory, and then the Whole valley blazed with patches of varicolored fire. It was not a reflec- tion. It was actual physical conflagra- tion of the solid rock in irregular areas. Some of the fire shapes were most fantastic. And with the unex- pectedness of a bursting shell the sur- face of the ground before our feet crackled into a ghastly blue flame. The nigger uttered a cry in his throat and disappeared. I felt a sharp breath on my neck, an ejaculation of surprise at my ear. It was startling enough to scare the soul out of a man, but I !told fast and was just about to step forward when my collar was twisted tight from behind. I raised both my lamas, felt steel and knew that I was in the grasp of Handy Solomon's claw. The sailor had me foul. I did my best to twist around, to unbutton the colter, but in vain. I felt my wind leav lug me; the ghastly blue light was shot with red. Distinctly I heard the man's sharp letaken breath as some new phenomenon met his eye, and his great oath as he swore. "By the mother of God," he cried, "it's the devil!" Then I was jerked off my feet, and the next I knew I was lying on my back, very wet, on the beach. The day was breaking, and the men, quite sober, were talking vehemently. It was impossible to make out what they said, but as Handy Solomon and the nigger were the center of discus- sion I could imagine the subject. I felt very stiff and sore and hazy in my mind. My neck wus lame from the draaging and my tongue dry from EczemaCovered a y's Face the choking. For some time I lay in a half torpor watching the lilac of dawn change to the rose of sunrise, utterly indifferent to everything. They had thrown me down across the first rise of the little sand dunes back of the tide sands, and from It I could tit once look out over the sea full of the rest- less shadows of dawn and the land narrowing to the mouth of the arroyo. I remember wondering whether Cap- tain Selover were up yet. Then with a sharp stab at the heart I remem- bered. The thought was like a dash of cold water in clearing my faculties. I rais- ed my head. Seaward a white gull had caught the first rays of the sun beyond the cliffs. Landward—I saw with a choke in my throat a figure emerging from the arroyo. At the sight I made a desperate at- tempt to move, but with the effort dis- covered that I was again bound. My stirring thus called Pulz's attention. Before I could look away he had fol- lowed the direction of my gaze. The discussion instantly ceased. They wait- ed in grim silence. I did not know what to do. Percy Darrow, carrying some sort of large book, was walking rapidly toward us. Perdosa had disappeared. Thrackles after an instant came and sat beside me and clapped his big hand over my mouth. It was horrible. When within a hundred paces or so I could see that Darrow labored un- der some great excitement. His usual indifferent saunter had, as I have in- dicated, given way to a firm and de- cided step; his ironical eye glistened; his sallow cheek glowed. "Boys," he shouted cheerfully, "the time's up. We've succeeded. We'll sail just as soon as the Lord'll let us get ready. Rustle the stuff aboard. The doctor'll be down in a Short time, and we ought to be loaded by night" Handy Solomon and Pulz laid hand on two of the rifles near by and began surreptitiously to fill their magazines. The nigger shook his knife free of the scabbard And sat with it in his left hand, concealed by his body. I could feel Thrackles' muscles stiffen. An- other fifty paces and it would be no longer necessary to stop my mantle The thought made me desperate. I had failed as a leader of these men and I had been forced to stand by at debauching, cruel and murderous af- fairs, but now it is over I thunk heaven the reproach cannot be made against me that at any time I counted the con- sequences to myself. Thrackles' hand lay heavy across my mouth. I bit it to the bone, and as he involuntarily snatched It away I rolled over` toward the sea. Thus for an instant I had my inouth free. "Run! Run!" I shouted. "For God's sake"— Thrackles leaped upon me and struck me heavily upon the mouth, then sprung for a rifle. i managed to streg- gle back to the dune, Whence I could see. CHAPTER XXII. ERC DARROW, with the keen+ nese that always cbaraeterized his mental apprehension, had understood enough of my stran- gietl cry. He had not hesitated nor de payed for an explanation, but had turn- ed track and was now running as fast as his long legs would carry him back toward the opening of the ravine, my companions stood watching him, but making no attempt either to shoot or to follow, For a moment I could not understand this, then remembered the disappearance of Perdosa, My heart jumped wildly, for the Mexican had been gone quite long enough to have cut off the assistant's escape. I could not doubt that he would pick off his man at close range as soon as the fu- gitive should have reached the ens trance to the arroyo. There can be no question that be would have done so had not his Mexi- can impatience betrayed him. He shot loo soon. Percy Darrow stopped in his tracks. Although we heard the bel, let slug by us, for an instant we thought he was hit. Then Perdosa tired a second time, again without re- sult. Darrow turned sharp to the left and began desperately to scale the steep cliffs. I once took part in a wild boar hunt on the coast of California. Our dogs had penned a small band at the head of a narrow barranca, from which a siugie steep trail led over the hill. We, perched on another hill some 300 or 400 yards away, shot at the animals as they toiled up the trail. The range ewes long, but we had time, for the severity of the climb forced the boars to a foot pace. It was exactly like that. Percy Dar- row had 200 feet of ascent to make. He could go just so fast; must con- sume just so much time in his snail- like progress up the face of the hill. During that time he furnished an ex- cellent target, and the loose sandstone showed where each shot struck. A significant indication was that the then did not take the trouble to get nearer, for which maneuver they would have hacl time in plenty, but distributed themselves leisurely for a shooting match. "First ;;hot," claimed Handy Solo - Mon, and without delay fired offhand. A puff of dust showed to the right. "Nerve no good,". he commented. "Jerked her just as I pulled." Pulz fired from the knee. The dust this time puffed below. "Thought she'd carry up that dis- tance," he muttered. The nigger, too, missed, and Thrac- kles grinned triumphantly. "I get a show," saki he. • He spread his ma..-ive legs apart, drew a deep breath and raised his weapon. It lay in his grasp steady as a log, and I saw that Percy Dar - row's fate was in the hands of that dangerous erons c las. of natural n tt.mt n that possesses no nerves. But for the Was spreading onto the body but DR. CHASE'S OINTMENT made a compieto cure. "I would not caro if I could bear the suffering myself," said an anxious mother, "but for the poor innocent baby to be in agony from the dreadful, itching eezema, is more than I can stand.' i Fortunately, there is in Dr. Chase's , Ointment soothing and healing for baby's skin troubles. While Premark - ably quick and effective in action, Dr.. 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The former—Dr. Shoop'sNight Curr—lea t->pira) mucous membrane suppository remedy, while hr .�,,00p's Restorative is wholly an internal treat. went. The Restorative reaches throughout the c::tir.! system. sleeking the repair of all nerve all tisue, and all blood a hr.ents. The "Night Cure", as its wane implies, does its work while you sleep. It soothes; sore and inilai. ed nevous surfaces, heals local weaknesses net discharges, while the Restorative, eases nervon.t u mete. ertt, gives renewed vigor and ambition., t illis up wasted tissues, bringing about renewed w'i .trrogth. vigor, and energy. Take DrSnoop: h •,:torative—Tabu is or Liquid—IMO. WI r..1 tunic to tho system. For positive local help, use a3 wen Deo Shoop's Night Cure WALLEY'S DRUG STORE. second time my teeth saved his 1tfe. The trigger guard slipped against Thrackles' lacerated hand almost at the instant of discharge. He missed, and the bullet went wide. Darrow had. climbed • a matter of twenty feet. Now, the seamen distributed them- selves for more leisurely and accurate marksmanship. Handy Solomon lay flat on his stomach, resting the rifle muzzle across the top of a sand dune. Pulz sat down, an elbow on either knee for the greater steadiness. The nigger knelt, but T".irackles remained on his feet. NQ rest could be steadier than the stonelike rigidity of his thick arms. The firing now became miscellane- ous. No one paid any attention to any one else. Each discovered what I could have told them, that even the human figure at 500 yards is a small mark for a strange rifle. The constant correction of elevation, however, brought the puffs of dust always clos- er, and I could not but realize that the doctrine off chances must brine home Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Colic and Cramps somd'Or the bullets. 1 soon coscovereu by way of comfort that only Thrackles and Handy Solomon really understood firearms, and of those two Thrackles alone had had much experience at long range. He told me afterward he had hunted otter. About halfway up the cliff Thrackles fired his fifth shot. No dust followed the discharge, and I saw Percy Dar- row stagger and almost lose his hold. The men yelled savagely, but the as- sistant pulled himself together and con- tinued his crawling. The sun had been shining in our faces. I could imagine its blurring ef- Nearly every one is troubled with bowel complaint during the summer months. But, do they know what to do to cure it. Thousands do, many don't. WE CAN TELL YOUI DR. FOWLER'S Extract of Wild Strawberry WILL DO IT I It has been on the market 64 years, and is universally used in thousands of families. There are many imitations of this sterling remedy, so do not be led fate taking something "just its good" which some unscrupulous druggist tries to talk you into taking. Dr. Fowler's is the original. There are none just ee good. It cures Summer Complaint, Cholera Morbus, Cholera Ih- fantum, Seasickness acid all Bowel tom. plaints. ?rice 35 cents. Manufactured only by The T. Miibum Co., Limited, Toronto, I knew that he had there several sport- ing rifles, and I hoped greatly that he and lir. Schermerhorn might accom- plish something before the Rion had recovered their wits to the point of foreseeing his probable attack. The uncanny cloud in the heavens, the . weird half light and the explosions, which now grew snore frequent, had their strong effect in spite of explana• - tion. The men were not really afraid to venture in quest of the supposed treasure, but they were in a frame of mind that dreaded the first plunge. And time was going by. But the fates were against us, as al- ways in this ill starred voyage. I, watching from the sand dune, saw a second figure emerge from the arroyo's mouth. It appeared to stagger as though hurt, and every eight or ten paces it stopped and rested in a bent over position. The murky light was too dim for me to make out details. But after a moment a rift in the veil enabled me to identify Dr. Schermer- horn carrying, with great difficulty, the chest. The Jiring now became miscellaneous. feet on the sights. Now abruptly it, was blotted out, and a semitwilight fell. We all looked up in spite of our- selves. An opaque veil had been drawn quite across the heavens, through which we could not make out even the shape of the sun. It was like a thunder cloud except that its under- surface instead of being the usual gray black was a beep earth brown. As we looked up a deep bellow stirred the air, which had fallen quite still, long forks of lightning shot horizontally from the direction of the island's interior, and flashes of dull red were reflected from the canopy of cloud. The men stared with their mouths open. Undoubtedly the change had been some time in preparation, but all had been so absorbed in the affair of the doctor's assistant that no one 4lad noticed. It came to our consciousness with the suddenness of a theatrical change. A. dull roaring commenced, grew in volume, and then a great ex- plosion shook the very ground under our feet. We stared at each other, our faces whitening. "What kind of hell has broke loose?" muttered Pulz. The nigger fell flat on his face, utter- ing deep lamentations. "Voodoo! Voodoe!" he groaned. A gentle shower of white flakes be- gan, powdering the surface of every - D CHAPTER XXIII. TOOK no chances, but began at once to shout as soon as I saw the men had noticed his com- ing. It was impossible for me to tell Whether or not Dr. Schermer - horn heard me. If he did he misunder- stood my intention, for he continued painfully to advance. The only result I gained was to get myself well gagged with my own pocket handkerchiefand thrown in a hollow between the dunes. Thence I could hear Handy Solomon speaking. fiercely and rapidly. "Now you let me run this," he com- manded. "We got to find out some - thin'. It ain't no good to us without we knows, and we want to find out how he's got the rest hid." They assented. "I'm goin' out to help him carry her in," announced the seaman. A long pause ensued, in which I watched the deep canopy of red black thicken overhead. A. strange and un- earthly light had fallen on the world, and the air was quite still. After awhile I heard Handy Solomon and Dr. Schermerhorn join the group. "There you are, perfesser," cried Handy Solomon in tones of the great- est heartiness. "I'll put her right there, and she'll be as. safe as a babby At home. She's heavy, though." Dr. Schermerhorn laughed a pleased and excited laugh. I could tell by the tone of his voice that he was strung high and guessed that his triumph needed an audience. "You may say so well," he said. "It iss beefy, and it iss heafy with the world desire, the great substance that can do efferything. Where iss Percy?" "He's gone aboard." "We must embark. The time is joost right. A day sooner and the egsperi- ment would haf been spoilt, but now" —he laughed—"let the island sink, we do not care. We must embark hastily." "It'.11 take a man long time to carry down all your things, perfesser." "Oh, led them go! The eruption has alretty swallowed them oop. The lava iss by now a foot deep in the valley. Before long it flows here, so we must embark." "But you've lost all them vallyable things, perfesser," said Handy Solo- mon. "Now, I call that hard. luck." Dr. Schermerhorn snapped his fin- gers. "They do not amoundt to that!" he cried. "Here, here, in this leetle box iss all the treasure! Here iss the la- bor of ten years! Here iss the Laugh- ing Lass and all the crew and all the equipmendt comprised. Here iss the world!" "I'm a plain seaman, perfesser, and 'I suppose I got to believe you, but she's a main small box for all that" "With that small box you can haf all your wishes," asserted the profess- or, still in the German lyric strain over his triumph. "It las the box of en- chantments. You haf but to will the change you would haf taig place—It iss done. The substance of the rocks, the molecule—alit" "Could a man make diamonds?" ask- ed Pulz abruptly. I could hear the sharp intake of the men's breathing thing. Far out to sea we could make as they hung on the reply. out the sun on the water. Gradually "Much more wonderful changes than the roaring died down. The lightning that it can accomplish," replied the ceased. Comparative peace ensued. doctor, with an indulgent laugh. "That We looked again toward the cliff. Percy Darrow had not for one instant ceased to climb. He was just topping the edge of the bluff. Handy Solomon with a cry of rage seized another rifle and emptied the magazine at him as fast as the lever could be worked. The dust flew wild in a half dozen places. Darrow drew himself up to the sky line, raised his hat ironically and dis- appeared. "D— his soul!" cried Handy Solo - change iss simple. Carbon iss, coal; carbon iss diamond. You see? One has but to change the form, not the s u bstance." "Then it'll change coal to diamonds?" asked Handy Solomon. "Yes; you gather my meanings"— heard a sharp squeak like a terri- fied mouse. Then a long, dreadful si- lence; then two dull, heavy blows, spaced with deliberation. A moment later I caught a glimpse of Handy mon, his face livid. He threw his rifle Solomon bent forward to the labor of to the beach and danced on it in an dragging a body toward the sea, his 1 ecstacy of rage. "What do we care?" growled Thrac- kles. "IIe's no good to us. Wet I want to know is w'et's up here any- how!" "Did you ever see a volcano go off, you swab?" snapped handy Solomon. "Easy with year names. mate. No, 1 never slid. We better get out." "'Without the chest?" "&'pose we go up the gulch and get it, then," suggested Thrackles. But at this Handy Solomon drew back in evident terror. "t'p to that hole?" he objected. "Not ".tion an' Pals go." 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We fairly tum- bled up out of the dory, which we did not hoist on deck, but left at the end of the painter to beat her sides against the ship. steel claw hooked under the angle of tile jaw as a man handles a fish. Pulz carne and threw off my bonds and gag. "Come along!" Bald he. All kept looking fearfully toward the arroyo. A dense white steam marked its course. The air was now heavy with portent. Successive explosions, some light, some severe, shook the foundations of the island. Great rocks and bowiders bounded down the hilts. The flashes of lightning had become more frequent. We moved, exaggerat- ed to each other's vision by the strange light, uncouth and gigantic. "Let's get out of this!" cried Thrackles. We turned nt the word and ran, Thrackles staggering under the weight of the chest. All our belongings we abandoned and set out for the Laugh- ing Lass with only the tatters itt which we stood. Luelaliy for as a great part of the Ship's steres had been !returned to her hold after the last thorough scrubbing, se Wo were in apbsti$tience. 0 CHAPTER XXIV. UR haste, however, availed us little, for f r there was no wind at all. We lay for over two hours under the weird light, overcanopied by the red brown cloud, while the explosions shook the founda- tions of the world. Nobody ventured below. The sails flapped idly from the masts; the blocks and spars creaked; the three cornered waves rose straight up and fell again as though reaching from the deep. When the men first began to sweat the sails up, evidently in preparation for an it_enediate departure, I objected vehemently. "You aren't going to leave him on the island:" I cried. "He'll die of starva- tion." They did not answer me, but after a little more, when my expostulations had become more positive, Handy Solo- mon dropped the halliard and drew me to one side. "Look here, you," he snarled, "you'd better stow your gab! You're lucky to be here yourself, let alone botherin' your thick head about anybody else, and you can kiss the book on that! Do you know why you ain't with them car- rion?" He jerked his thumb toward the beach. "It's because Solomon An- derson's your friend. Thrackles would have 1:i11cd you in a minute 'count of his bit hand. I got you your chance. Now. don't be a fool, for I ain't goin' to stand between you and them an- other time. Besides, he won't last long if that volcano keeps at it" IIs left me. Whatever truth lay in his assumption of friendship, and I doubted there existed much of either truth or friendship in him, I saw the conttnon sense of his advice. I was in no position to dictate a course of ac- tion. After the sails were on her we gath- ered at the starboard rail to watch the shore. There the hills ran auto inky blackness, as the horizon sometimes merges into a thunder squall. A dense white steam came from the creels bed within the arroyo. The surges beat on the shore louder than the ordinary, and the foam even in these day hours seemed to throw up a faint phosphor- e'scene. Frequent earthquakes oscil- lated the laudseape. We watO4ted, I do not know for what, our eyes etiolating Tato the murk- of the island. Nobody thought of the chest, which lay on the cabin table aft I contributed mali- ciously my bit to their fear, "These volcanic islands 'sometimes sink entirely," I suggested, "and in that case we'll be carried down by the suction." it was intended merely to increase their uneasiness, but, strangely enough, after a few moments it ended by im- posing itself on my own fears. I be - gait to be afraid the island would sink, began to watch for it, began to share the farchtat 4 Muer of these. men. A CARLYLE STORY. • Hatred of sham was one of Carlyle's notable characteristics. One evening at a small literary gathering a lady famous for her "muslin theology" was bewailing the wickedness of the Jews in not receiv- ing our Saviour, and ended her diatribe by expressing regret that Hs had not ap- peared in our own time. "How delight- ed," said she, "we would all be to throvr our doors open to Him, and listen to His divine precepts! Don't you think so Mr. Carlyle?" The sturdy philosopher, thus ap- pealed to, said, in hie broad Scotch: "No, madam, I don't, I think that dressed, fashionably had He come very with plenty of money, and preached doctrines palatable to the higher orders„ I might have had the honor of receiving from yon a card of invitation, on the bank of which would be written, "To meet our Saviour", but if He had come uttering His precepts, and denouncing the Pharisees, and associating with publicans and the lower orders, as He did, you would have treated him muck as the Jews did, and have Dried out, "Take Him to Newgate and hang Him." 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