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Johnson:
(Continued from last week.)
(What devil lead 'led 'h'im ,forth on
such a night;wwhy_+he, whom with my
own eyes, three :hours egon•e, I had
seen drunken, should '' have ohosen, af-
ter his :carouse, cold air and his •own
company rather than sleep; when and
where he "first spied us, how long he
had -followed us, T have never known.
Perhaps he could not sleep for tri-
umph, had heard of my impending
arrest, had came forth to add to the
bitterness of my cup by his presence,
and so had happened upon us. He
could only have guessed at those he
followed, until he reached the edge of
the wharf an•d looked down upon us
in the moonlight, For a •mo'ment he
stood without moving; then he raised
his hand to his lips, and the shrill call
that had startled us rang out again.
At the far end of the lane lights ap-
peared, i\Ien were coming down the
lane at a run; whether they were the
watch, or my lord's own rogues, we.
tarried not to see. There was ,not time
to loosen the rope from the piles, so
I drew my knife to cut it. :My lord
saw the movement, and sprang down
the steps, at the same time shouting' to
the men behind to hasten. Sparrow,
grappling with him, locked him in a
giant's embrace, lifted hint bodily
•from the steps, and flung him into the
boat. 'His mead struck against a
thwart, and he lay, huddled .beneath
it, quiet enough, The minister sprang
after him. and ?I cut the rope. By now
the wharf shook with running feet,
and the backward streaming flame of
the torches reddened its boards and
the black water beneath it; but each
instant the water widened between us
and our pursuers. Wind and current
swept us out, and at that wharf there
were no boats to follow us.
Those whom my lord's whistle had
brought were now upon the very edge
,of the wharf. 'The marshal's voice
called upon us in the name of the
King to return. Finding that we
vouchsafed no answer, he pulled a
pistol and fired, the ball going through
my hat; then whipped :oat its fellaw
and fired again. 'Mistress Percy, whose
behavior had 'been that of an angel,
stirred in her seat. I .did not know un-
til the day brake that the ,ball had
grazed her arm, drenching her ,sleeve
with blood,
"Lt is time we were away," I said,
with a laugh. "If your ,reverence will
keep your hand upon the tiller and
your eye upon the gentleman whom
you have made our travelling compan-
ion, 'I'ii put .up the sail."
I was on my way to the .foremast,
when the boom lying prone before me
rose. Slowly and majestically the sail
ascended, tapering upward, silvered
by the moon,—the great white pinion
which should bear us we knew not
whither, 1 'stopped short in my tracks.:
Mistress !Percy drew a sobbing breath
and the minister gasped with admira-
tion. We all three stared as though
the white cloth had veritably been a
monster wing endowed with life.
'Sails don't rise of themselves!" I
exclaimed, and was at the mast before
the words were out of my lips.
Crouched .behind it was a man. I
should have known him even without
the aid of the moon. Often enough,
IGod knows, !I had seen him crouched
like this beside me, ourselves in aim osophy. He now did the best thing he
,bash awaiting some unwary Inc', 'brute
or. human; or ourselves in hiding, hold-
ing our breath lest it should, 'betray
us. 'The m'ini'ster who had been a ,play-
ger, •the rival who would have poisoned
me, ,the servant 'who would have stab-
bed me, ,the wife who was wife in
name ,only, -+mine were strange ship-
mates.
(He rose to his feet and stood there.
-against' the utast, in the old 'half -sub-
missive, half -defiant attitude, with his
head thrown Back in the old way.
"Id you order me, sir, 'I will swim.
ashore," he said, 'half sullenly, ;half—
know not how, •
"You ,would never reach the Shore,"
I •reeled. "And .you know diet I will :pin, over the gunwales. "It's en -
never order you again. Stay here if ough," he muttered.
You. ,please, or ,come aft if you please!, •I beckoned to Diccon, and p.ut+ting
THURSDAY, !FEBRUARY 2, 1933 -
!the tiller into his hands went forward icy wind. :alarming had shown nee the
to reef the sail. When it was done and blood upon, her sleeve, and I had .cut
S was •back in niy place, my lord ,away the cloth from the white aria,
spoke again. and had washed the wound with wine
"Where are you .going,captain?" and.b.o•und it up. If, for my fee, I
I don't know." • should have liked to press my lips
"le you leave that sail up much upon : the brine -veined marble, still I
longer, you will land us at the bottom did it not,
of the river." ' When, a week before I ,had stored
"There are worse places," I replied. the boat with food and drink and had
He left his seat, and moved, though brought it to that lonely wharf, I lead
with caution, to one nearer 'Mistress thought that if at the last my wide.
Percy, "Are cold and storm and 'peril willied to flee I would •attempt to reae'h
sweeter to You, ladiy, than warmth, the bay, and p'as'sing out between • the
and safety, and a love that .would capes would go north. Given an open
guard you from, not run you into, boat and the ;tempestuous seas of . No -
danger?" he said in a whisper. "Do vember, 'there might he one change
you not wish this boat the Santa Ter- out of a hundred of our reaching Man
era, these rude ,boards the velvet cu- 'hattan acrd the Deitoh, who might or
shionis of her state 'cabin, this dark- might not give us refuge. She. had
ness her many lights, 'this cold .her willed to flee, and twe'were upon our,
warmth, with the night shut out and journey, and the one chance had van-
love shut in?" hiked. 'That wan, Monotonous, cold,
IH1is aud'aci'ty, if it angered tree, yet and clinging mist had ;shrouded us for
made me 'lawgh. Not so with the ,our burial, and. our 'gr'ave yawned be -
King's ward. She shrank front him neabh us.
until she pressed the tiller.. Our The day passed .and the night came
flight, the puesuing feet, the struggle and still we fou'gh't the sea, arid still
at the wharf, her wounded arm of the wind drove us whither it would.
which she had not old, the terror .of :The night passed and ,the second, more
the white sail rising as if by magic, suing came, and found us yet alive. (My
the vision of the urian she hated lying wife lay no'w at' my feet, her head pli-
as one dead before her in, the moon- lowed upon ' the bundleshe had
light, the.cold, the hurry of the night, •brought from the minister's ' house.
--email wonder if her spirit fa'iled her Too weak for sp,eeoh, waiting in pain
for a time. I felt her hand touch mine and cold and terror for death to bring
where it rested upon the tiller. "Cap_ her warmth and life, . the knightly
fain Petty," ,she murmured, with a spirit yet lived in ''her eyes, and she
tittle sobbing breath. smiled when I bent' over her with
II leaned across the tiller and ad- wine to moisten her lips. Alt length
dressed the favorite. ""My lord," I she began, to wander in her mind, and
said, "courtesy to prisoners is one to speak of stammer days and flowers,
thing, and freedom from restraint and A hand held my heart in a sl'ow'ly
license of tongue is another. Here at tighteninggrip of iron, and the tears
the stern the boat is somewh'a't heav ran down the minister's cheeks. 'The
ily freighted. Your lordship will oh- man who had darkened heryoung
ligeme if you .will go ,forward where 'life, bringing her to 'this, Pocked at
there is room enough and to spare." her with an ashen face.
His black brows drew together. As the day _wore on, the gray of the
"And what if I refuse, sir?" he de- sky paled to a dead man's hue, and
minded haughtily. the wind lessened, but the waves were
"I leave rope here," I answered, still mountain high. One moment we
and to aid me the gentleman who poised, Pike the gulls that now ,scream -
once before tonight, and in despite of ed about us, upon some giddy sum-
your struggles, lifted you in his arms mit, the sky alone above and around
like an infant. We will tie you hand us; the next we sank into dark green
and foot, and lay you in the bottom and glassy caverns: Suddenly the wind
of the boat. If you make too much
trouble there is always the river. \'Iy
lord, you are not now at Whitehall.
You are with desperate men, outlaws
who have no king, and so fear no
king's minions. 'Will you go free, or
will you go bound? Go you sh'all, one
way or the other,"
Ile looked at the with rage a'tud hat-
red in his face. 'Then, with a laugh
that was not good to hear and a shrug
of the shoulders, he went forward to
bear Diccon company in the bow.
I went back and 'took the Filler
from'Sp'arr.ow. 'We were now in mid -
river, and the swollen stream and the
strong wind bore us on ,with them like
a leaf before the gale. We left behind
the lights and the claimer, the dark
t,awn and the silent fort, the weary
Due 'Return and the Shipping about
the lower wharf. !Before us loomed
the Santa (Teresa; we ,passed so close
'beneath her huge ,bl'a'ck sides that we
heard ,the .wind whistling through her
rigging. When she, too, was gone, the
liver lay bare +before us; silver when
the moon shone, of an inky 'blackness
when it was dbscured by one of the.
many flying cloud's.
'My wife 'wrapped her mantle closer
about her, and, leaning back in her
seat in the stern beside me, raised her
face to the wild and solemn heavens
Diccon sat apart in the 'bow and held
his tongue. The minister bent over
and, lifting the man that lay in the
bottom of the 'boat, laid him at ful
length upon the thwart before us. The
moonlight streamed down upon the
prostrate figure, I think it could never
have shone upon a more handsome or
a more wicked' man, He lay there in
his splendid ,dress and dark 'beauty
Endymion-Bice, beneSth the moon.
The King's ward turned her eyes up-
on him, kept them there a .moment
then glanced away, and looked at him
no more.
"There's a parlous lump upon his
forehead where it struck the thwart
said the minister, "but the life's yet
in hint. He'll shame honest men for
many a day to come, Your Patonists,
who from a goodly outside argue se
fair a soul, could :never have been ac-
quainted evith this gentleman."
'The subject of his discourse moan-
ed and stirred. The minister raised
one of the hanging hands and felt for
the pulse. "Faint enough," he went
on. "A little more and the King would
have waited for his minion forever
and a day. It would have been the
better for us, who have now, indeed,
a 'strange fish upon our hands, but 1
am glad I killed him not."
I tossed him a flask. "It's good
aqua vitae, and the flask is honest.
'Give hien to drink of it"
He forced the liquor between my
lord's teeth, then dashed water in his
face. Another minute and the King's
favorite sat up and looked around
hint. Dazed as yet, he stared, with no
comprehension in his eyes, at the
clouds, the sail, the rushing water,
the dark figures about him. "Nicoio!"
he cried sharply.
"He's not here, my lord," I said.
At ,the sound of my voice he sprang
to his feet,
'I should advise your lordship to
sit still," I said. "The wind is very
boisterous, and we are not under bare
poles. If you exert yourself, you may
capsize the boat."
He sat down mechanically, and put
his hand +to his forehead, I watched
him curiously. I't was the strangest.
trick that fortune had played' him.
His hand dropped at last, and he
straightened himself, with a long
breath. "Who threw me into the
boat?" he demanded,
The Ring's minion hacked not the
courage of the body, nor, when pas-
sionate action had brought him
naught, a certain reserve force of p'hil-
pr.imr.oses. until I' am tired," she said,,
"I will sleep here •a little in the sun-
shine, anld when I awake I will make
you a colwsiip 'ball."
Time piaased and the groaning,
tremibiting tin -bens •still held together.
The wind fell,' the sky t
i is became blue
and the sun shone. Another While,,
and the waves were less mountainous
land beat less furiously against the
boat, Hope 'heightened before us. To
s'tr;ong swimmers the distance to the
islet was' trifling; ,if the boat would,
but last until the sea 'sub!sdde•d, we
Might .gain the beach, "Whait we would
do apart thatbarren spot, where was
neither man' nor brute, food nor w•at
er, was a thing that we head not the
time to consider, I,t was•land ,thalt we
craved.
Another hour, an:d • the sea still fell,
Another, and a wave struck the 'boat
with force. "The sea' isconing int"
cried the minister.
"Ay," I `amewere'd. "She will go to
.pieces now."
The mini's'ter rose to his 'feeit, "'I am,
no mariner," he said, "but once in the
neater' I can swim Snot -Bice ' any fish;
iTh'ere have been times When I have
reproached, the Lord for thlat he cas-
ed a poor humble silly preacher like
me with the strength of some mighty
man of old, amid there have been times
when I have ,thanked him for that
strength. I thank shim now. Captain
Percy, if you twit'( trust the lady to me.
'1 will take her safely to that Shore."
I raised my head from the figure
over which I was .bending, and look
ed first at the still tunvulituous sea,.
and then at the gigantic frame of the
minister. When we had made that
.nail raft no swimmer could have lived
in that shock of waves; now there
was a chance for all, and for the min-
ister, with his great strength, the
greatest I haveever seen in any man,
a double chance. I took her from the
raft and gave her into his arms. A
minute later the boat went to pieces.
Stde by side Sparrow and I buffeted
the sea, 1=Ie held the Ring's ward in
one arm, and he bore her safely over
the 'huge swells and through the on-
slaught of the breaking waves. I
could thank God for his strength and
could have dont,—burst into a roar o•f
laughter. "Zooks!" he cried, "It's as
good a comedy ,as ever I sawl How's
the play to end, captain? Are we to
go off laughing, or is the end to be,
bloody after ail? For ins'tan'ce, is there
murder to be done?" He looked at
me boldly, ;one hand on his hip, the
other twirling his mustaches.
"We are not all murderers, my
lord" 'I .told hint. "For the present you.
are in no (danger other than that which
is common to us all."
He looked at the clouds piling be-
hind us, thicker and thicker, higher
and higher, at the pending mast, at
the black water swirling now and
CHA'PjTEER XX
In Which We Are In Desperate tCase
"God• walketh upon the sea as he
walketh upon the land," said the min-
ister. "The sea is his and we as his.
He will do what it liketh him with his
own," As he spoke he looked with a
steadfast soul into the black hollow
of the wave that combed above us,
tfieeatsning destruction.
The wave broke, and the boat skill'
1i�ed. 1Borne 'high upon the shoulder
of the .next rolling hill, we looked
north, south, east and west, and s'an'
only a waste of ever forming, ever
breaking waves, a gray slcy streaked
with darker gray shifting vapor, and
a horizon impenetrably veiled. Where
we were i,n the great bay, in what dir-
ection we were being driven, haw
near we might be to the open sea or
to some fatal shore, we knew not.
What we did know was that both
Masts 'were gone, that we must bail
the boat without ceasing if we would
PROFESSIONAL, CARDS
Medical
DR. H. HUQH ROSS, Phyaieiaa,
olluN ear
s1-
and Surgeon. Late of London Ho'r
pital, London, England. Spe
attention to diseases of the eye, y`
nose and throat. Office and re
deuce behind Dominion Bank. Office
Phone No. 5; Residence Phone 104.
DR. F. J. BURROWS, Soalortle
Office and residence, Goderich street.
east of the United Church. Comm,
for the 'County of Huron. Telep'honet
No. 46.
DR. F. J. R. F\OlR1S!TER—Eye, Ear
Nose and Throat. Graduate in Medi-
cine, University of Toronto 1897..
Late Assistant New York Ophthal—
mic and Aural Institute, Moorefield's,
Eye, and Golden Square throat hotpi-'•
tads; London, England. At Comm-
ercial Hotel, Seaforth, 3rd Monday ,in,
each month, .irony 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
fell away, veered, and rose again like trust her to it. For the other three of
a giant refreshed. us, we were all strong swimmers, and
Diccon started, put his hand to his `hough bruised and beat about, we
ear, then sprang to his feet. "Break held our -own. Each wave, overcame,
err!" he cried hoarsely, left us nearer the islet,—a little while
tWe listened with straining ears. He and our feet touched the bottom.' A
was right. 'The low, ominous murmur short struggle with the tremendous
changed to a distant roar, grew loud- surf and we were out of the maw of
or, and yet louder, and was no longer the sea, but out upon a desolate islet,
distant, • a mere hand's breadth of sand and
"It will be the sand islets off Cape shell in a lonely ocean, some three
Charles, sir," he said. I nodded, He leagues' from the mainland of Accom-
and I knew there was no need of ac, and upon, it neither food nor water.
words. We had the clothes upon our barter,
The shy grew paler and paler, and and my lord and I had kept OUT
soon upon the woof of the clouds a swords. I hada knife, and Diccon too
splash of dull yellow showed where was probably armed. The 'flint' and
the sun teauld be. The fog rose, laying steel and tinder box within my pouch
bare the desolate ocean. Before us 'Made- up our store.
were two very small islands, mere :The minister,laid the woman whom
handfuls of s'an'd, lying side by side, he carried upon the pebbles, fell upon
and encompassed half by the open his knees, and lif'ted his rugged• face
sea, half by stiller waters diked in by to heavens I too knelt, and with my
.marshes and sand bars. A coarse, 'hand upon her heart said my /idyll
scanty grass and a few stunted trees prayer In my own way. My lord stood
with 'branches bending away front the with unbent head, his eyes upon bha't
sea 'lived upon them, but nothing else. still white face, but Diccon turned
Over them and aver the marshes and abruptly and strode off to a law ridge
the sand batik circled myriads of of sand, from the top of which one
great white gulls, Their harsh, un- might survey the entire island.
earthly voices came to us faintly, and (In two minutes he was back again.
;and increased the desolation of earth "There's plenity of driftwmod further
and sky and'
sea. up the heathy" he announced, "and a
IT'o the shell -strewn beach of the mort of dried seaweed. At least we
outer of the two islets raoed long needn't freeze."
limes of surf, and between us and it
lurked a sand bar, against ,which the CTo be Continued.)
great rollers dashed with a bell -like
roar. The wind drove us straight upon
this bar. A moment of deadly peril
and it had us fast, holding us for the
keep it from snvampin,g, that the wind waves to beat our life out. The boat
was doing an apparently im'p'ossible listed then rested
thing and rising 'higher and higher, quivering through.
all its length. The waves pounded
and that the craves which buffeted. us
'from one to the other were hourly
swelling to a more .monstrous bulk,
IWe haecome into the wider •water
at dawn, and still under canvas. An
hour latter, off Point Comfort, a bare
mast contented us; we had hardly
gotten the sail in when, mast and all
went overboard. That had 'been hours
ago.
A common peril is a mighty leveler
of ;barriers. 'Scant time was there in
that boat to make distinction between
friend and foe. As one man we fought
the element wihich would devour us.
Bach took his turn at the bailing, each
watched for the next great wave be-
fore which we must cower, clinging;
with numbed hands to gunwale and
thwart. We fared alike, toiled alike,
and suffered alike, only that the min-
ister and I cared for Mistress Percy,
asking no help from the others,
The King's ward endured all with-
out a murmur. She was cold, she was
worn with watching and terror, she
was wounded; each moment Death
raised his arm to strike, but she sat
there dauntless, and looked him in the
facewtith a smile upon her own. If,
wearied out, we had given up the
fight,' her hole would have spurred us
ton to wrestle with our fate to .the last
gasp. She sat between Sparrow and
rue, and as hest we might we s'hielded
her front the drenching seas and the
against its side, each watery batter-
ing ram dissolving in foam and spray
but to give place to another, and yet
it held together and yet we lived.
'How long it would hold we could not
tell; we only knew it could not be for
long. The inc'lina'tion of the boat was
.not so great but that, with caution,
we Wright move about, There were on
board rope and axe, With the latter I
cut away the thwarts and decking in
the boil', and Diccon and tI made a
small raft. When it was finished, I
lifted my wife in, my arms and laid
her upon it and lashed her to it with
the rope. She smiled like a c'hitd, then
closed her eyes. "I have gathered
DIR. W. C. SIPIROuAIT.—Graduate olt
Faculty of Medicine, University 'of
Western Ontario, London. Memiber,
of College of Physicians and Sus'-.
geons• of Ontario. Office .in rear ole
Aberhart's drug store, Seafotithi.
Phone 90. Hours 1.30-4 p.m., 7.30'
-9 p.m. Other hours by appointment
The labyrinth of English spelling,
a real ,inane, renders its correct 'writ-
ing unattainable for many of alien
origin.
(Exceptin the worlds of finance and
politics, plain -looking ,faces predomi-
nate among 'the great.
In the land of sawdust and spangles
it has been decided that the tigers is
the king of beasts.
Dental
DR. J. A. MU'N)N, Successor to.
Dr. R. R. Ross, graduate of North
western University, Chicago, I'11. "Li-
centiate Royal College of Dental Sur-
geons, Toronto. Office ' over Sails'
hardware, • Maiti St., Seaforth. Phone
151.
DR. F. J. BIEORELY, graduate
Royal College of Dental Surgeons,
Toronto. Office over W. R, Smith's ;
grocery, Main St., Seaforth. Phones,' 9
office 185W, residence 1853,
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