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K m r Ml f lx t 2, vtit 3ffit4SLXS?SSHl Tiae Rabbit Esnters vLfiSiOT'frr--B asm ass ssV ssI!st"BSBsIZi-wk "!T jEHsxs7rVV I JtLjKJaC Jean J - X H bsbbsi bbeS bbsbss) I m by ' J Jrir IHP - rW M Zn&Vml "L-at-fe JWi By CARL JEN8 aOL I5APLL O SYNOPSIS. 1 fr r - I 1 Thp storv otitis tvlth tlifs Introduction of John StPj-.Ju-ns. fiilvpnttiror. a Massa chusetts ir.a.n mnroond by authorities at Valparaiso. Chile. IMnK Interested in mining oirat!ftns in Bolivia, ho was de nounced by Chile as an insurrectionist and as a consequence was hiding. At his liotel his attention was attracted by an IKnslifhman and a yoiitiij wom-in. Btcpln'ns rescued the voting woman from i drunken oRicer. He was thanl.e-1 by ixf.r. Admiral of the I'.-ruvir i navy con fronted Stephens, told him that war had been d'larcd between Ciile and ! ru nnd offered him the oliice of captain. He desired that that night the Esmeralda, a Chilean vessel. should be captured. Stephens accepted the commission. (Stephens met a motley crew, to vrhi-li he was assigned. He gave tliem final in structions They boarded the vessel. Thev Bucces-qfully captured the vessel supposed to be the Esmeralda, through strategy. Capt. Stephens gave directions for the de- Fiarture of the f raf t. He entered the cab n and discovered the English woman and her maid. Stephens quickly learned lho wroni vessel had been captured. It was Lord Darlington's private vacht. lho lord's wife and maid being aboard. He explained the situation to lier lady Hhip. Then First Mate Tuttle laid bare the plot, saying that the S-:i Queen had JK-en taken in order to go to the Antarc tic circle. Tuttle explained that n a former voyage he had '"iirtnil that the Xonna Isabel was lost in :3 He had Sound it fro7en in a huge case of Ice on an island and contaiw-d much gold. Btephens consented to be tin" captain of the expedition. Tie told Iidy Darlington. She was greatly alarmed, hut expressed confidence in him. The Sea tueen encountered a vessel in the fog. Stephens attempted to communicate. This caused a tierce struggle and be was overcome. Tuttle finally squaring the sit uation. Then the Sea Queen headed south ftgaln. Under Tut tie's guidance the ves sel made progress toward its goal. Ie Nova, the mate, told Stephens that he believed Tuttle. now acting as skipper. Insane because of bis queer actions. Stephens was awakened by crashing of Klas3. He saw Tuttle In the grip of a Hpasm of religious mania nnd overcame liim. The sailor upon regaining his sense's was taken ill. Tuttle c-ommltted suicide by Hhootlng. Vpon vote of the crew Stephens assumed the leadership and the men decided to continue the treasure bunt, the Islands being supposed to be only 200 miles distant. Tuttle was buried In the sea. Iadv Darlington pronouncing tho service. Stephens awaking from uleep saw the ghost, supposed to have forreed the basis for Tuttle's religious mania. CHAPTER XVIII. Continued. By hc.ivon, for her sake, it for no other reason. I would play the man! Ay, anil I comprehended exactly what such resolve would cost realized ful ly what that mongrel crew would say .and do the moment their ghostly ter mors fled, and they knew I had Riven up search for the treasure. I should have to command by brute force, by threat and blow. There would be mutiny aboard for every league until we made port. I knew the nature of that sea-scum forward how they "would whine and curse, how they would hate me for failing to hold them to their course in face of death! Well, let them hate; my love was "worth by far the more, and the life nnd honor of Lady Darlington ont--wolshed all else on board ay. and the treasure of the Donna Isabel! "Im plicitly" I saw her eyes again as she said it, and sprang to the deck, fum bling in the darkness for the latch of my door. The main cabin was dimly lighted .and chill, the fire in the stove low. I paused to rattle it, and add a few lumps of coal from the scuttle stand ing near by. In spite of surrounding comforts what a grim, inhospitable place this was for any woman like her! The very snugness of the cabin served only to emphasize the gloom and peril without, the frightful polar mystery which surrounded us, which drives men mad amid its awful dis tances, its shrouded silence. Suddenly, directly opposite where I etood, I saw it again that same shapeless, white, gliding figure. An Instant only I stood rooted to the spot, xny blood like ice, my eyes full of hor ror. Then the swift reaction came, the reserve courage of a man ashamed of such weakness, and I leaped straight toward the misty object, grap pling at It with my hands. I touched nothing but air. falling headlong with a violence Jarring the entire cabin, and overthrowing a chair crashing to the deck. Dazed, confused, I stag gered to my knees, staring about into the dim shadows. A white-draped figuro was at my very elbow, and I sprang to my feet, only to take a quick step backward, grasping at the table, as I recognized Lady Darling ton. "Good God! was that you?" 1 gasped, the horror still possessing me. "This certainly is." she answered, swiftly. "But what do you mean? What has occurred?" "I hardly know," and I looked about me, and then into her face, breathing Jieavily. "I seem unable to separate the real from the unreal. I am half afraid I am losing my mind. Lady Darlington, it is not only the crew for Avard who are seeing ghosts on board. I laughed at my experience before, be lieving it a mere illusion that could never occur again. In that spirit I told you about seeing a white, misty 1 figure in this cabin the night after Tuttle died. It vanished like a wreath of smoke, and daylight made me be lieve the vision was born of a tired brain. But 1 have seen it again now yonder, as plainly as I can see you. It was no dream, no imagination; yet when I sought to grasp the thing, my fingers encountered nothing but air." 1 saw her hands tremble, her white face turned whither I pointed; but she bad not beheld what I had, and her mind remained clear. "What was It you saw?" "A shapeless white figure, misty, vanishing like a bubble." "Yonder, you say? just where you law it before?" I had not thought of that, yet it was true there, beside Tuttle's door. An Instant she stood motionless, her eyes searching the dim corners of the cab In. -as though tracing some suspicion awakened within her mind. Suddenly she clasped my ana. If, ' sf- y'y mmmmmammKmamaammammmKmtmm "Damn You, McKnlght, "We do not believe In ghosts, Mr. Stephens, you and I." her voice grow ing firmer with conviction. "Our edu cation and training make such a con ception impossible. There is a natural cause for this, a reason, an actual presence back of the shadow. There must be, and we must find it. Where did you stand when you saw this ap parition?" I stepped back to the spot beside the stove, realizing that she still clung tightly to mo. "Here, and I lifted my eyes like this." She leaned eagerly forward, her breath on my cheek, her fingers clutch ing my arm. "Why why that Is a mirror you are looking into! See! What is it re flected there? Turn up the light until I locato the spot. Oh, I see now the open pantry door. Mr. Stephens, there is where your ghost stood it was the shadow of a man reflected in that mirror." Our eyes met, all my former terror fled, shame and anger dominating me. "Dade?" lt might be certainly some one who sought in that way to terrorize officers and crew, and thus compel them to turn back. Whoever it was. he killed Mr. Tuttle, and now seeks to accomplish the same end with you. What are you going to do?" "Trace him down. The last time the fellow went directly from here to the forecastle. There must be a passageway from stem to stern." She caught me as I turned, her gray eyes wide with apprehension. "You will take mo with you?" "That will be impossible. Lady Dar lington. I know nothing regarding this passage amidships, but it must surely lead through the coal bunkers and tho engine room." "But but I cannot let you go alone," utterly forgetting to conceal her agitation. "Truly. I could not bear to do it. Whoever this man may be ho will become desperate when cor nered. Your very life will bo In dan ger." "And you really care?" my hand clasping hers, my eyes eagerly search ing the gray depths. "Yes, I care." making no effort to free herself; "why should I not? Think what our condition would be if you were not on board. Yet that is not all;. I care because I value your life, your friendship. Little as I can do. let me, at least, be near you." "You are near me," said I, utterly forgetful of circumstances in the sud den rush of passion, "always near me, because my thoughts are with you. my sole purpose in life to serve you." The gray eyes fell Instantly; the clasping hand was withdrawn and pressed to her forehead. "I I will try to do as you wish," she faltered, "but are you armed?" "Not now, but I will get a revolver from my stateroom. First, let me help you to your cabin." She permitted my guidance without a word of protest, only glancing once up into my faco as she put a question. "You will return here? you will let me know at once what you discover? Promise me this." "I promise; and more, I will pledge myself to be cautious, so do not worry." I procured my revolver, turned the light low once more in the main cabin, and then stole silently into the narrow passageway leading forward. There was no light in the pantry, but the faint reflection from the cabin enabled me to distinguish the more prominent outlines. A form lay outstretched on a locker, and I bent over It silently. It was Dade, curled up on his side and sound asleep. There was no doubt about the reality of his slumber; the fellow was not shamming, and I drew back, leaving kirn undisturbed, in Lie 6UI11" I Panted. alley-way leading forward was ex tremely narrow, yet of a height suffi cient to afford comparatively easy passage had it only been lighted. Sud denly a faint glow appeared ahead, and a moment later I slipped cau tiously through a small bulkhead door standing ajar, into a low, square room, containing six bunks arranged In tiers of two. A slush lamp swung from a blackened beam, and various articles of wearing apparel dangled from hooks. I peered into the bunks, dis covering three occupied, the uncon scious sleepers being Cooky, the smooth-faced Chilean, and the gunner, a Swede named Gustafson. None awoke under my scrutiny, although the Chilean was talking In his sleep and threshing his arms about as if In nightmare. I bent down, looking at him more closely, attracted by some thing oddly familiar in the upturned features. By all the gods, the fellow was Lieut. Juan Sanchez, his long mustaches shaven, and look ing ten years younger! It was so odd a thing, this sudden renewal of a con troversy originating thousands of leagues away, that I nearly laughed outright, forgetting for tho instant the serious purpose bringing me there. Yet this surprising discovery of Sanchez aboard seemed of compara tively little importance, and was as quickly dismissed. The narrow bulk head door leading forward was tight ly closed, and in that dim light I had to hunt for it, so perfectly was it fitted into place. When discovered, how ever, it proved to be unfastened, and I stepped forth into an emptied coal bunker, whence I could look straight forward along the glowing boilers into the engine room. I advanced carefully along the slight open space until I came upon the squad of firemen and big Bill Anderson. The latter shaded his eyes, staring at me as though he mistook me for another ghost, but I took the initiative. "I have been investigating the ar rangement of things below, Anderson." I said, in explanation; "rather odd way in which the yacht Is cut up. Did you know there was a passage leading all the way aft?" The boatswain shook his head, too surly naturally to answer. "Well, possibly you know whether or not a similar passage leads forward into the forecastle?" "There's a bulkhead door over there," he returned. Indicating by a gesture a spot concealed by the donkey pump, "but 1 don't know MXNem) See End of Man's Dominion Whote Matter Settled by Four Women Over the Tea Table. The women, taking their tea by the club window, talked. "They have a girl prompter at the Garrick theater." said one. "The man ager told me last night that he'll have none but women prompters after this. Their fine, clear voices carry so beau tifully across the stage, while at the same time they are quite inaudible In the auditorium." "Of course." said another. "In teach ing living languages, too. a woman is incomparably better than a mas. A man has a thick guttural voice. His words are all mumbled and Jumbled. But a woman's clear delivery her open voice gives every syllable Its just value. In studying French or Ger man or Italian, choose a woman, and your progress will be easier mad where It goes, only it's dark as helL" "It comes out under the forecastle, sir," broke In a coal heaver named Davis. "Leastwise there's a trap In the deck there, with a ladder leadin' down." "I'll finish the trip through, then, for I like to know what is under my feet when I command a vesseL Where is the engineer. Anderson?" He waved his big hairy hand in the direction of the boilers. "Went to his bunk to He down for an hour; he was about all in." "Are you capable of standing watch alone In an engine room?" The fellow grinned, his bulldog jaw protruding. "Well. I've had to do It on this trip whether I'm capable or not. That fellow can't stand it in here night an' day without no rest. I know how to start an stop her, an watch the wa ter gauge. If anything else goes wrong he's easy enough called." So it was McKnignt who was play ing the antics of a ghost on board; McKnight who had discovered that unusual passageway through the bulk heads; McKnight who had conceived the idea that in this manner be could frighten us into turning back. Well, truly, I did not altogether blame the man, and, now that my own fear of the supernatural was allayed, did not feel any desire to punish him severely. Still, his masquerade must stop be fore he thoroughly demoralized the crew, frightening them beyond all my power of control. I discovered the door concealed be hind the donkey engine, left It slightly ajar behind me. and stepped forward into the black passage. I bad groped along to the very foot of the ladder, feeling nothing but bare walls, and hearing no sound except the slush of bilge water, when suddenly an inar ticulate cry sounded almost directly above; something, a hatch cover pos sibly, seemed to settle into place, and the ladder shook under my hand. I drew back a step, permitting the fel low to come down until be reached the floor. My eyes, accustomed to the gloom, enabled me to dimly perceive his shape. It was no more than a formless smudge he made, but I struck straight for what seemed to Toe the head, and landed with a force that dropped him like a log. In an Instant I was on top, clasping the canvas sheet he wore tightly about his arms, and throttling him against the deck. He fought like a wild bull for a mo ment, thoroughly frightened and whimpering, dazed by the suddenness of attack, yet following the animal instinct of a struggle for life. "Damn you. McKnight. lie still!" I panted. "I've got you, and you might just as well take your medicine, my man. Yes. that's a gun you feel, and I know how to use 1L So you're the ghost of the Sea Queen, are you? I guess you know what this means if I turn you over to those fellows, don't you?" He groaned, and I ventured to re lease my grip on his throat, flinging back the canvas from his head. "Sit up. Well, I'll tell you, McKnight you would probably go overboard to feed the fishes. Do you recognize me?" "Yes, sir," managing to find his voice for the first time. "You're Mr. Stephens." "Right you are, and you can bless your lucky stars that I am the one who caught you. What started you at this trickr "It was the Chilean, sir, Sanchez; he said we could scare the whole out fit," "Did he do any ot the ghost play Ingr "No, sir; he didn't have the nerve, but but he rigged me up, and found out about these passageways." What was I to do with the man? In truth there was little I dared to do ander the circumstances. "Now see here, McKnight," I said, soberly, "you quit this thing for good and all; if there is any more ghost walking done on the Sea Queen FH turn you and Sanchez over to the men. Besides, there's no use resort ing again to that sort of trick, for we're about at the end of our cruise." "You mean we're going to turn north?" "Yes. Now if I let you go will yon behave yourself?" (TO BE CONTINUED.) "Norwegian horses." said a third woman, "are at once spirited and gen tle. Do you know why? Because it is the women, the farm women, who break them. They make pets of them first; the colts feed from their bands and follow them about like dogs. After that their breaking is easy. It is only done by kindness. And the result Is that Norwegian horses have the beet dispositions in the world." A fourth woman settled the whole matter. "As mental power oasts muscular power." she said, "woman, save In such irremediably brutal vocations as sur gery or pig-sticking, will supersedt maa all along the line." Origin ef "Living en Tick." The phrase, "living oa tick." dates back to the seventeenth centary, when a tradesman's sill was kaowa as a ticket. (Copyright. IMS by AnvtcUfd Utaray lrmm ) And oa that November sight, while every one at Hilltop, as the manor house was called, slept and dreamed, the first snow of the season came fall ing softly down, and when day dawned a pure white mantle covered the earth for miles around. One person In par ticular at Hilltop hailed the snow with delight She had made two or three circles of the house before she ap peared at the breakfast table and said to her widowed mother: "It's just what I have been waiting for. I shall kill as many as 20 rab bits to-day. They were running about last night, and left a thousand tracks. Oh, mother, I wish you loved to tramp about in the snow and fall down and roll over and get up and walk three or four miles and shoot rabbits and and be a Nimrod." The widow Warden looked up at the 20-year-old daughter with an Indulgent smile and shook her head. There were good sisters who whispered that Miss Jeannie was a bit of a hoyden. She fished, hunted, prospected, rode horse back, rowed, swam, and she didn't know how to sew or cook. When she found a hole in the heel of her stock ing or a rip in her dress she care fully hung the article on the back of a chair for some one else to mend. If other girls said she was a hoyden all the young men said she was good look ing, and she didn't seem to care either way. Half an hour after she had bolted her breakfast, the girl was out In her short skirt and leggings, and with her gun on her shoulder, she picked out a rabbit track she knew and followed it toward the woods back of the house. If that rabbit had known of the pres ence of the bloodthirsty girl In the house he would have headed for the north pole instead of his home under a brush heap, but as he didn't know, he wandered over half the county and finally reached home and went to sleep. He was awakened by footsteps softly approaching his hiding place. Miss Jeannie Stood Looking and Wondering. He peeped out and saw a girl with red cheeks, hazel eyes and brown hair. There was the report of a gun and down he went and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty Jo Animals had no agent at hand. If there had been one he would surely have been "sasscd." The slain rabbit was slung over her shoulder and the hunter went on. Forty rods further on a second rab bit made a bolt but found cover before he became a target The huntress was cautiously advancing, finger on trigger, when something came bounding over the brush heap and she fired. The other rabbit had squealed when he felt the shot; this one raised his voice in howls and kl-yi's that made the forest ring. It was not a rabbit at all. but a small dog, and he ran around In circles as be yelped. Miss Jeannie stood looking and wondering when a young man appeared through the trees beyond. He, also, was a Nimrod; he, also, had a slain hare on his back. While he was yet 30 feet away, he called out: "Now, then, young fellow, why didn't you wait and assassinate me! You either shot my dog on purpose, or else you are not fit to be trusted with a gun!" As Miss Jeannie was wearing a round fur cap and a short Jacket the mistake was pardonable. "If you can't tell a dog from a rab bit what are you doing out here?" con tinued the young man as he ad vanced. "Hs Isn't hurt much," replied the girl, as the dog ceased to yelp, and she moved from the underbrush which had partly hidden her. Commercial Value of Peat Germany, as Usual. Quick to Recog nize Potential Wealth Stored In the Earth. An object lesson In the utilization of peat bogs has for the last few years been carried on in northeastern Ger many. Some 16,000 acres of moor land, known as the Friedeburg bogs, are being reclaimed and the peat used for the supply of electric power. The land is cultivated by settlers, who at the same time cut peat and sell it to the electrical supply company, with works on an Island in the middle of the bog. It is expected that this cen tral power station will supply elec tricity for light and power for a re gioa ot 30 miles radius. Already It supplies electric light to Emden, WU helxashaven and several other large towns and cities. As by-products of the coavereioa of -the eaergy of the seat iato electricity targe euaarJUes of ammonia and ay- erogea sulphide mn maim aad sold. "I I beg pardoa!" gasped the hunter, as he came to a stop withla five feet of her. "Yon see you know" "Yes, I see that you took me for a small boy out with his first gun. and I know that I have shot as many rah hits ss you have. If your dog had barked I should not have shot" "Oh, no harm done not at alL I think most of the shot missed Foxy. Yes. he should have barked. Yes--Just so." "But you Just the same as called me an assassin!" said the girl, who saw that the stranger was a good looking young man. "Sorry, you know very sorry," he replied. "I I don't think I meant it" "And you said I shot your dog oa purpose!" "Sorry very sorry. I must have been excited." "And that I probably desired to as sassinate you!" "Sorry awfully sorry. The dog yelp ing in pain must have excited me. Per mit me to introduce myself as Phillip Meadows of the city, and stopping with my uncle. Judge Spears, for a few days. Miss er Miss I must express my deepest regrets." Miss Jeannie could do no less than give her name, and by that time the wounded dog had crawled to her feet and was asking her forgiveness for be ing shot An examination showed that he had received five or six of the lead en pellets. "Are you a competent dog doctor?" Miss Jeannie asked. "Well er no," blushed the young "But I am, though I have no dog at present The shot must be picked out and the dog taken good care of for some days. I shot him, and I'll take him home with me and cure him." "But you didn't meaa to shoot him. i you know; and my uncle's coach man" "May putter around and do Just the wrong thing." she finished. "The dog shall go home with me, and In a week I shall have him as well as ever. Mr. Meadows, care must be taken not to let a wounded dog relapse. Did you know that?" "Gracious, no! If Foxy should pine for me. would he have a relapse? You know he has been my constant com panion for the last three years." Miss Jeannie looked him straight la the eyes until he dropped his and then ventured: "If you are not afraid of being as sassinated by the young fellow' yoa might call In a day or two and see how Foxy Is getting along. Oh, but you needn't call after all. You may telephone.-" "But Foxy will want to see me and I him. If you don't mind " "Well, if I'm not at home. Foxy will be in the kennel." Foxy turned out to he a dog that knew a thing or two. He gave one look at bis master, which might have been accompanied by a wink, and then trotted off with the girl, who had given up any further hunting for the day. At the house the dog was tied up and two pellets picked out ..of his neck by the aid of a penknife, and from thence on his attitude was that of a dog having a mission. . On the afternoon of the second day, Mr. Meadows appeared and was intro duced to the mother though he had very little conversation with her. The talk was mostly between him and M13S Jeannie. and it was dog talk. The kennel was visited, the patient Inter viewed, and rabbit hunting was dis cussed from various standpoints. Foxy showed no disposition to follow his master home, and the master was secretly glad of It "If I had a girl." said the cook la the kitchen to herself, after the young man had departed "If I had a girl, which I haven't got, and she should go hunting and shoot a dog belonging to a fine young man, and that fine young man should call and see about the dog" And she shook her head and looked wise and said no more until next time. Mr. Meadows called again. He was passing and thought he would ask about Foxy. He called a third time and a fourth and he astonished his uncle by telling him how he loved the country In winter, and though Foxy got well the calling did not cease. When it had settled down Into a regular thing the cook sighed and 6hook her head and said: "Didn't I predict It? Didn't I say (hat day she came home with the bull ed dog at her heels that a hurted dog always leads to matrimony and happiness? And ain't It going to ia this case?" The man always has the most friends when he needs the fewest As part ot the work 38 miles of new canals are to be made, and In order to accomplish this about 650 acres of moor have to be stripped of their peat Thus In the making of the canals 200, 000.000 cubic feet of peat would be supplied for the central power sta tion. And this. It Is reckoned, would keep It going at its present rate ot the production ot energy for 6 years. Adam's Solar Plexue Slow. Eve Adam, If you don't behave yourself I'm going right home to my mother. Adam Aw, g'wani Yon ain't got no mother! (Showing that there was wit eves la those days.) Feeding One's Vanity. 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