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To say that we stood within an ace of de struction would be to treat of our cir cumstances light. A word amiss might have destroyed us so utterly that not a man of us all could have told the tale. There, towering above us, was the great hull of this floating mystery, the massive outline of a vessel built upon the lines of an Atlantic steamer, yet carrying four masts and a funnel so low that one might look twice to detect it at all. Flashing lights from stern to stern, we could almost count the men upon the decks of this phan tom of the high seas—men wearing all varieties of dress, some the garb of fashion, some that of ordinary work men, a few in the uniform of sailors. And what a hive of activity those decks appeared to be! How the fellows were running to and fro, changing their positions every moment, taking their stands now in the shroud, now' high upon the fo'castle, an agitated, expect ant throng, turning, as it were, one face to the steamer which came to relieve them, and by which news of their safety or their danger might come. Their very interest, however, became our confidence. Taking my place with the forward lookout, I conned every feature of the great ship and im pressed the facts of it upon my mem ory. No thought of peril troubled me now. , I scanned the decks, I say, as quietly as one surveys a ship that must be docked, noted the black shapes of the veiled guns, the wretched, haphazard armament amidships, the unsuitability of the great hull to the purposes now indicated, the seeming absence of all order and method and even leadership upon its decks. This monstrous, float ing haven of crime and horror no sailor had chosen it for its present purpose I made sure. In a lighter mo ment I could say that it had once been a second class cruiser, and now stood for a witness to an age which added raking masts to its warships and eyed askance the supremacy of steam. Im roth, it might be, had purchased this ship from a government that had no further use for it. He had gone to Chili or the Argentine—a second thought said to Italy, for this vessel had more than a smack of Italian de sign and practice as we knew' it in the last days of canvas and the first of steel. And he had bought this relic at his own price, had maintained its engines, added new masts for disguise, and so adapted it to that master scheme whose aims rose so far above this evidence of realization. All this, I say, my swift survey showed me. But the supreme question it did not answ'er. There were women to be discerned up on the deck of the ship; but not the figure of Joan Fordibras. Of her the night had no news to give me. We lay at this time, I suppose, some 200 yards from the great ship, a little astern of her, and ready, need it be said, to bound away into the darkness should the need arise. Our daring is neither to be set down to courage nor foolhardiness. It was pl*in that every man on board Valentine Imroth’s sanctuary had eyes but for the ap proaching steamer, ears but for the news it should carry. Absolutely con vinced of our safety, we watched the spectacle with that air of assurance and self-content which any secret agent of a good cause may assume at the moment of his trumph. My own doubt and trouble could hardly be shared by the honest fellows about me; or if it were shared, then had they the good taste to make light of it. Indeed, they were upon the point of persuading me that if it were Joan Fordibras I had come out to seek, then the sooner I get me back to Europe the better. "There's no Joan upon yonder ship,” said old Timothy in a big whisper; "I’d as soon look to find the Queen of Sheba there." "Indeed, sir," added Larry kindly, "I do think Mr. McShanus is right. They'd never take a lady among that riff-raff. I don't see how it would serve them, anyway. We must credit General For dibras with some feelings, if the other bus none. He’s taken Miss Joan to by Marconlgram. Listen with me and ' you may follow the story. That Is the first chapter of it.” I pointed to the deck of the great j ship, whence the figure of my little Joan had disappeared as mysteriously as it came, and there I showed to Larry a group of men in earnest talk with a newcomer from the steamer which now lay almost alongside the larger vessel. The quick movements, the gestures of this company, betrayed the curiosity which the stramger's words awakened and the astonishment that rightly followed upon it. Imagin ing myself to be a spy among them, I heard, in imagination, every word of that fateful conversation. "We sent no message.” "You’ve been fooled, right enough.” “There's mischief afloat.” “No, we had no accident— what in thunder are you talking about —it's a lie—!” So the new hand must be telling the astonished crew. It need ed no great prescience to say what would follow after. Even Timothy Mc Shanus arrived at it before I had fin ished. "Would that be Colin Ross gone aboard?" he asked me, wheeling about suddenly. I told him it would hardly be an other. "Then he'll tell 'em the truth about the cables, or I'm a liar.” "He will tell them the truth about the cables, and you are not a liar, Timothy. He is doing so at this very moment.” "Faith, man, they’ll be firing shots at us, then.” "It is possible, Timothy. If you are curious on the point—” “Curious? Would ye have me in the sea?” "In the sea or out, I would have you keep a cool head, Timothy. They are going to fire at us, but that is not to say that they are going to hit us. Our turn comes after. Neither today nor tomorrow may see the end of. it. I am only beginning with them, Timothy. When I have done, God help some of them, Imroth above the others. Now wait for it and see. Here's the lantern busy. They are putting the story to the proof, you will observe. Let us hope tiiat their astonishment may not be too much for them.” So a commonplace chatter went, and yet the mad intoxication of that in terval of suspense had come upon us all as a fever; and no man might measure his words. There we were, sagging in the trough of the seas some 300 yards it may be, from the great ship's guns, our crew muttering in hoarse whispers, the steam hissing from our valves, the smoke drifting to the north in a dense, suffocating cloud. Aware of the few moments of grace possible to us, we had given the word down to Mr. Benson to go full speed astern; and running thus for the half of a mile, we then swung the yacht round and headed due south at all the speed of which we were capable. Now, Indeed, the tense hour of our doubt began. We counted the very minutes until the beams of the mon ster searchlight should ensnare us once more. Brief exclamations, cheery words of hope flashing from man to man, gave passage to that current of hu man electricity which burned us as a flame. Would the light never fall? Aye, yonder it strikes the sea, and yonder and yonder compassing the horizon around in a twinkling, a blind glory, a very Pharos of the unknown world. And now it falls full upon us, and man can look upon the face of man as though he stood beneath the sun of day; and all is stillness, and silence, and the unspoken question. Far as we were away, a roar of tri umph could be heard across the sea when Imroth's ship discovered us and the great beams of the searchlight rest ed upon us exultingly. In turn, the smoke from our funnel forbade us any longer to locate the enemy, or to form an opinion as to his movements. Cer tainly, no gunshot followed immediate ly upon his achievement; and when a little gust of the south wind, veering a point or two, carried the loom from our furnaces away, we espied the two ships drifting as before, and even boats passing from one to the other. From this time, moreover, the darkness failed us somewhat, and a great moon tem pered the ocean with its translucent beams of silvery light. Our safety lay in our speed. We burned the precious coal without stint, since our very lives were in the furnaces’ keeping. ■•Wlmt lrnotir. Hwim T •nn.„»__ IJirope, be sure of it." I could make no answer, for my jfcasoned opinion had that obstinate dogmatism which must attend the logical idea if logic be of any worth at all. It were better, I thought, not to discuss it, and for that matter, there were events enough to take a man’s mind from the graver doubts. The re lief steamer had by now drawn so near to tne other that loud cheers were raised between them, boats put off in hasie from the Diamond Ship, and boats from the newcomer. We heard greetings exchanged—in French, in German, in Italian. Instantly almost, a great business of making ready to unload a cargo out there In mid-At lantic began. I perceived that the two ships were to be caught together by immense grapplings. and so held while the affair of discharging was done. Of what the patrol’s cargo might be, I could only surmise. She would bring the invaluable coal, of course—else could not the water be distilled aboard the rogue—coal and food and news and. it might bo, new' rufflians who had escaped the Justice of Europe or Africa. This, I say, was a surmise. The Im mediate test of it my eyes carried no further; for chancing to look again at hazard toward the greater vessel, I detected a solitary figure at the taff rail and instantly recognized my little Joan, standing apart from all that rufflian crew', and looking wistfully toward that very place where White Wings lay In ambush on the waters. And then I knew that I had done well to dare this voyage, and that, cost w’hat It might In blood or treas ure. I would save this child from Im roth and that which he had prepared for her. CHAPTER XV. "Larry," I said to the captain, "they will discover our presence inside 10 minutes, and we shall learn how they can shoot. This is too easy a target for my comfort. Let us back out while we have the chance.” Captain Larry, as intent upon the spectacle of the strange ships as any cabin boy. turned about quickly as a man roused up from a dream. "I was thinking of it before the relief came alongside," said he: "the steam blast may give us away any minute, doctor. We lie right under their stern, however, and that is some thing. So long as they don’t send their limelight whizzing—” “That is exactly what they are about to do, captain. They are going to look around for the unknown ship which has been sending them false messages they waiting for?” I asked him pres ently. He had deserted the bridge' and stood aft with me to watch the distant steamers. McShanus, meanwhile, paced the decks like a lion at the hour of feeding. It was his way of saying he found the suspense intolerable. "I don't think we shall have to wait long, sir,” the captain answered me; "you see, they would hardly be ready to fire their guns, and not overmuch discipline among them, I suppose. If they hit us, it will be something by way of an accident.” “And yet one that might happen. Larry. Well, here it comes, anyway! And a wicked bad shot, I must say!” It was odd that they should have fired at the very moment I replied to him, yet such was the fact and sucli the coincidence. Scarcely had I opened my mouth when a monstrous yellow flame leaped out over the bows of the Diamond Ship (which now had put about to chase us), and, spreading it self abroad upon the waters, left a heavy cloud of black smoke very baf fling to their gunners. As for the shell, I know not to this day where it fell. We heard neither explosion nor splash, saw no spume or spray upon the hither sea, and were, not a man of us, a penny the worse for their en deavor. A second attempt achieved no better result. True, we detected the shell this time, for It fell plump Into the sea, near the fifth part of a mile from our starboard quarters; but the wretched shooting, the long Interval between the shots, and the speed at which we travelled inspired confidence anew, and so surely, thut my men be gan to cheer the gunners ironically, and even to flash a signal to them across the sea. "It's as I thought, Larry," said I; "they carry a gun and have no more Idea how to use it than a ladv In charge of a boarding school. Imroth has been living us near to a fool's paradise as such a man Is ever likely to get to paradise at all. I think we need waste no more coal. Let us 1V> to and take our chances. The risk is too small to think about.” “Yon man would never hit cokernuts at a fair!” chimed In McShanus, who had come up; "what will ye be fling over the ocean for? Is It coal we have to steam to China and back? Sure, the doether is wise entirely, and be hanged to them! We lie here as safe as a babe In a mother's lapl” We laughed at his earnestness, but the order was rung down nevertheless, and presently the yacht luy rolling to the swell and we could hear the stok ers drawing a furnace below. Who Is justly to blame for the ficctdent, which followed. I uo not dare to tell myself. Sometimes I have charged myself with It, and complained bitterly of the opin ions 1 had ventured. I can only tell you that the yacht had scarcely slowed down again when the rogues' ship fired at us again, and the shot, crossing our forward decks at an angle of some 6J degrees, struck a fine young seaman of the nam«t of Holland, and almost annihilated him before our very eyea The tragedy had a greater significance because of the very mirth with which we had but a moment before regard ed Imroth’s gunners and their perform ance. Death stood there upon the heels of laughter; a cry In the night was the answer to an honest man's defi ance and my own bravado. As for poop Holland, the shot took him about the middle ani cut him absolutely In two. He could have suffered no pain, so In stantaneously wus he hurled Into etem lty. One moment X saw him standing at the bulwarks watching the distant searchlight; at the next, there remained but a dreadful something upon the deck from which men turned their eyes in horror an# dared not so much as speak about. The truth appalled the, men, drove challenge from their lips and laughter from their eyes. They were new men thereafter—British seamen, handy-men, who worked silently, methodically, stubbornly, as such fellows ever will when duty calls them. ■ Larry," I said, "the blame of that Is upon me. Ood forgive my rashness! I feel as though my own folly had cost me the life of one of my own sons.” Far away over the waters, tha Diamond Ship still fired her Impotent shells at us. Their very lmpotency con vinced ine how surely an accident had killed poor Holland. Nor was the hour to pass without further news of them. Impotent at the guns, they fell to words, rnpped out by our receiver so plainly that a very child of telegraphy could have read them. "The message of Valentine Imroth to the Engllsman, Fabos. I take up your challenge. Joan Fordlbras shall pay your debts in full.” I have It In my mind that It was Just upon the stroke of 1 o’clock of the morning, or two bells In the middle watch, when this amazing message came to me. The men were sleeping, and why should I awake them? Fallln, the young officer, had but lltle news to re port. The Diamond Ship no longer wasted her shells in angry impotence. Her searchlight had ceased to play upon the moonlit waters. Such tidings as came, were of a steamer’s mast head light seen for an Instant upon our port bow and then vanishing. "It’s a usual course for tramps, sir,” the young officer said; "and to tell you tho truth, I wasn't sure enough about It at all to wake the captain. If It were a ship out of Buenos Ayres, she’s keep ing more south than usual; but I’ve altered the course for a star before now, and you don’t care to wako up such a seaman as'Captain Larry to tell him you’ve done that. His orders to me were to go down and report any thing unusual. Well, a glimpse of a ship’s light shouldn’t be unusual, and that’s a fact.” I agreed with him; young landsman that I was, I thought that I could read the omen better than he. If he had seen the mast head light of a strange steamer, she could be no other than the second of the relief ships Imroth was awaiting. Herein lay many and disquieting possibilities. Given coal and stores enough, what was there to prevent the rogues i ittlng In to some South American port, landing there such plunder as they had, and dis persing to the cities wherein their friends would shelter them. I foresaw Immediately a complete frustration of my own plans and a conclusion of my task, humiliating beyond relief. Not Improbably that great hulk of a ship sailed already under the colors of some Irresponsible republic. She might, I Judged, fly the Venezuelan flag, or that of Honruras or Nicaragua. This would be to say that the mes sage still troubled me, and that I had by no means come to a resolution uoon It. Let It be admitted that It found me a little wanting In courage. I have written that the third officer made hls report of a strange steamer about two bells of tho middle watch. Not less curious than he, I paced the bridge with him until dawn, and heard no further tidings. When Larry him self turned out, it was Just before the hour of sunrise, and we stood together (MeShanus coming up from the saloon with a welcome jorum of steaming coffee) to see the break of day and to scan the face of tho waters for any confirmation of the young officer’s story. A daily scene, and yet how unchang ingly sublime! Standing there upon the bridge with my good friends about me, It seemed that the glory of tho morn shone full upon our faces and bade us hope. No longer did the night baffle our weary eyes. We sailed a frilling sea at tho splendor of the day, and far away upon tho clear horizon we espied the relief ship of which our third officer had spoken. "No star sir, after all,” said he, "un less, that Is, you would care to call her a lucky star.” (Continued Next Week.) ■ nc rs/unuiuy/ ui vvdiKiriy. From the Atlantic. Walking is not merely moving two legs rhythmically over certain Intervals of j ground. It is the primal and the only way to know the world, the deliberate en- j :erlng Into an inheritance, whose parts | ire wind and weather, sky and prospect, nen and animals, and all vital enjoy- | nent. The bicycle has some advantages i n point of speed, and gives a deceptive 3ense of power; but It Is a foe to observa :ion. 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