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- , i iw i . "H" TliK KOCK ISEAND"AIIGIJS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, . y I - j. I " v " ? r. "St .-- 1'.' i M H N "li - 1 .an i il U i VIAWt , 1 Fredarie Tkompso. SYSOPSI9 OF PRECEDING CHAP- TERS- " ! CHAPTER I. Lieutenant Sommers, t United States navy. Is ordered to the "J Durant steel works, where a connon he has Invented is being cast. He meets ; j Frances Durant, daughter of the steel ! mill owner. j CHAPTER II Edward Pinckney, , I rival of Sommers for Miss Durant's ! hand, as superintendent of the mill con ; epires against Sommers and the success 'of his cannon. ' CHAPTER III. Frances reveals that 6he ras studied wireless telegraphy. CHAPTER IV. Pinckney decides to cupplant the Sommers gun with one In dented by an employe. Marsh, and nam ed the Rhinestrom gun by Pinckney. CHAPTER V Pinckney and Som mers clash. CHAPTER VI. Frances and Som mers lparn that each loves the other. CHAPTER VII. Pinckney puts Smith, a drunken foreman, in charge of nnish " lng the Sommers gun. CHAPTER VII I. Sommers surprises . Pinckney by appearing at the works. CHAPTER IX. Frances lJurant also enters the steel mill, as she has heard of , foul play. -. , CHAPTER X. The drunken foreman ; . attacks Sommers and ruins the Som- ' mora gun . - ; CHAPTER XI Frances goes on a .' yachting tour and learns from Pinckney ; that the Sommers gun has proved a t'ail 7 ure. CHAPTER XII. Frances meets the lieutenant in Spain. CH.VITEIi XIII. Rradley. govern ment detective, starts to discover rert . eons why Sommers' gun pxpl'iii'J, kill ' lng several m?n. and sails for America "ion the Durant yacht with Sommers. . iMis Durant, her mother, and Pinckney. CHAPTER XIV. THE PERILS OF THE SEA. 'PT inE steamer Mongolian was 'I pitching, tossing, pounding along sturdily as best she could . ...... .-V l.rt. . . 1 1 1 , I ." . , i. ri 'hours she had fought her way -tip the ' coast iu the face of the worst storm 'of the season. H Now. olT Uatteras. the danger spot In the route from I'orto Rico to .New :York, the sturdy little liuer scarcely i .seemed ab!e to make any progress. . She bad been forced miles of! her course ami closer in toward the dan gerous reel's than her captain liked. ' : Not that the liner herself was iu any .grave ' danger." for the old Mongolian 'and her experienced captain had faced too many Atlantic storms for even a big oue to alarm them. The hatches had all been battened down, the pas sengers were below, and the stanch Collapse "I have traveled for thirty years continually, I lost a great denl of sleep, which together with constant worry left me in such a nervous state that finally, after having two collapses of nervous prostration, I was obliged to give up traveling al together. I doctored continually but with no relief. Dr. Miles' Nervine came to my rescue I cannot describe the suffering which this Nervine saved me. Whenever I am particularly nervous a few doses relieve me." A. G. C. LIBBY, Wells, Me. There are many nervous wrecks. There is nervous pros tration of the stomach, of the bowels, and other organs. The brain, the kidneys, the liver, the nerve centers are all exhausted. There is but one thing to do build up the nervous system by the use of Dr. Miles' Restora tive Nervine. Its strength ening influence upon the nerv ous system restores normal action to the organs, and when they all work in harmony, health is assured. Get a bottle from your druggist. Take it all ac cording to directions, and if it does not benefit he will return your money. r "r'-",ru LrWirMinii ' inmiri- f --r '- Novelized by Thompson Buchanan From the Successful Play of the Same Name By WINCHELL SMITH, FREDERIC THOMPSON and PAUL ARMSTRONG Copyright, 1908, by Frederic Thompson. All Rights Res erred. ;sTteamer, stripped as much as possible, slowly rising to each attack of the waves, drove on with all the power ol her engines under the storm, j Up In the little wireless room, the highest point on the ship, Harling. th lyoung operator, clung to his berth and jwondered what was going to happen, lit was his second trip to sea and his first big storm, so no wonder the young operator felt the thrill of the strug gle and just the faintest fear for the 'outcome. j Every officer and man connected with the liner was on post, waiting anxiously for whatever might happen They had little fears for the stanch 'Mongolian, but there were many ships jless sturdy iu those waters, and or such a night, with the vessel ont ol her course, there was no telling what might occur.' The captain's last In struction had been to look out foi wrecks. Most of the vessels of any size Id these waters carried wireless outfits, and in case of trouble they would bf sure at -once to send out broadcast their appeals for help. Little could bf done In any case, but at least the Mon golian could stand by to help as niuct as she could or. if absolutely neces- 'sary, take advantage of the warning? to keep clear of wrecks. i For hours the pitching of the ship jtirned irregularly to the roaring dr!v of the storm, had held the wireless man fast at his post. It was now pas! midnight and with litf'e chance of any abatement before dawn Harling's nerves were on odo as h. clung to his berth, wide eyed, alert, waiting, listening to the faintest :u: that might be the forerunner to toll ol disaster and death. Half a dozen time hi3 strained nerves had brought hitr .struggling from I. is berth to receive such a message, only to find his iuiag ination "had been playing tricks witl his fear. Suddenly there cam? from the in strument clicks so sharp, so distinct and yet so hurried that the young fel low spraug from the berth and stu:u bled to the table, sure now that ut lal something was coming. Again the instrument clicked wiidly. ,To the ears of the strained operator it brought a chill, for he knew it was the sending of some one wild with fear. Anxiously, impatiently, he lis tened. At first be could make out nothing. "They're crazy.'" he exclaimed to jLwiuseif. "What's the matter with jthe:u'r They're crazy!" The wild rattle or the receiver stop ped. a:;d IJarling seized his own key. ' "What's wring"; 1'oit L-e a fool. Keep your nerves. Scad sense." The touch of the key had brought him thoroughly to himself. His uervs tightened and his bead grew cool as hp drove his message fiercely out into the storm. He paused, listening eagerly, and again the receiver began to click, al most as wildly, as insanely, as befcre Only the skilled operator could ntakt out "C tJ-U." "A distress signal !" he gasped. "It's come." Again the Mongolian's wireless oper erator seized his key and drove out his answer into the night. As he waited he seized the tele phone connected direct with the cap tain's stateroom. "Captain, have just received a dis tress signal:" he shouted. "Have sent them our position in course, but the fool seemed to have lost his nerve. Have not been able to get anything from him yet." The answer of the captain came back cool and sharp. "Make him tell where he is and whe he is at once. I'll be with you." The receiver had begun to click sgain wildly, and Harling. gripping the table to keep himself steady, listened vith disgust, for the sending now was that of a man absolutely Insane from rear "Help: Help: For God's sake help r.s!" was all the receiver clicked. - i - , -t At last It stopped a moment, and the Mongolian operator managed to cut in. "Send name and position," be pound ed fiercely. "Send position. Keep nerve. Send position." He stopped, grasping the table and waiting anxiously. "M-o-D-g-o-l-l-a-n!" the receiver click ed wildly. "The fool!" gasped Harling. "The dirty coward! Sending that way at such a time!" He seized the key and drove out fiercely his command: "Send position." For reply the receiver disked back in the same rattled way: "Yacht Irvessa breaking upon 'reef. For God's sake help us! Will pay any reward if you will save us at once! Help us quick, for God's sake!" The rage of the operator had risen. The thought of lives resting on th work of the coward was awful. "The fool!" he gasped. "If be'i breaking up, why is be wasting time that way?" And then his own rnessag volleyed out into the uight: "What reef? Send position Quick!" In panicky clicks the answer came back. It was the same idiotic raving of a fear crazed man. "I'll reward you. I am E. H. Pinck ney and rich. Have thirty on board. Will reward handsomely." Again Harling drove out the short demand for the position of the wreck ed yacht. Then, as he waited for re ply, he seized the captain's telephone a second time. "It's the yacht Irvessa, captain. She reports going to pieces. There's a frightened fool at the key E. H. Pinckney. Can't even get his position. I'm doing my best, sir. but Pinckney 'a lost his uerve completely. If they had a man at the key we might get some thing." He hung up the phone to listen In disgust and despair to I'inckney's ravings driven out through the storm. There was no chance for Harling to se-.d. The man at the Irvessa key kept pounding, with no bense to his messages. As the Mongolian operator waited for a break to cut in the cap tain, driven by the force of the wind, fairly burst into the little wireless room. ".Well." he snapped, "what is it now? j Have you got the position of the Ir- ! vtssa?" ! Harling shook his head in disgust. "I can hardly make cut what he; says, captain. His sending is awful. He's a good operator, too. 1 believe, ' only he's lost his nerve completely, j Pur as nearly as I can make out" he ! listened a moment anxiously "it's a : little better now. lie says Irvessa. ; bound for New York from I'orto Itico, j s:n:c!i reet two hours ago. pen t j know where." j "Yes. yes, 1 understand." broke in the captain impatiently. "Hut can't he j give ns any idea of his course? Can LJrJ aI 3 : -1 J 1 t IK lie volleyed out Into the night a messagt ; c efucr. i dada roef is flip only charted red within 2G0 miles of our present posi tion. Could you send 200 miles to night?" Harling shook his bead. "1 don"t think vre could, sir. And 00 miles for a yacht would be impos sible. Walt a minute." He sprang to the key agnin and with firm, emphatic strokes droTe an im perative message. "What's that?" asked the captain. "I asked for his radius of communi cationhow far he could send," ex plained Ilarlinjr. He waited a moment, and then the receiver began again its nervous, frightened clicking. The face of the listening operator brightened. "Sixty miles," he exclaimed, translat ing the clicks. "Why, we must be within forty miles to get him at all tonight. But we are going toward him. We might now be within thirty miles." The captain shook his head. "Yes, but where?" he said. "It may be in any position. Anywhere withU a forty mile reach, ahead or on eithoj beam, and tonight we can Bcarcely see a quarter mile with the search light." Again the receiver began a wild tattoo. The light went out of liar ling's face as he listened. Then he turned almost plteously to the csptain. "He says they're breaking P, sir For God's sake" The clicking stopped suddenly. Thi two men In the wireless room looked at each other, and slowly each saw tht horror grow in the eyes of the other They waited with blanched aces. Tht receiver stiiyed still. "They're gone." said the captxli Boftly at last, and outside the wlreles? room the wind roared triumphantly, while the big waves pitched the shir: about In the teeth of the gale. , Harling dropped back into a chair. "Gone!" be muttered stupidly. "Gone!" And then, to his plain inmg ination, there came the picture of the yacht breaking up and the thirty golnp down to death In the sea. Perhups they might be closer; they might b almost on them. Perhaps there was' IK. lsl I M M Ik Discovery 5n Cleans 1 M j 9 fnr k (fli)tt&FTP sars i Mature s wa Un&er Denies m Polishes 1 . m . Take f. 10c I to the : Grocery Store Today ? fa tae Can p ' t.I Mriii. And tlu'ii the thought. "Sup I 'lsc there are women, too, on board. fame to the young operator. Hariing sprang to his feet. "No. do!" he yelled loud above the "torru. "They shan't be gone: W will save tlionil" lie spr:mg to the key and desperate ly, rebp'iliously. volleyed our into thf tiight a iv.essace of cheer :i:;d hi-pe. "We're coining. We'll save you yet Vl;pre are you? H.mg on:" The rnptnin laid his hand gently or the young fellow's shoulder. "It's no use. I fear, boy." he sp.M softly. "They ure gone. That's tr:i way it is Ht on You've d 'ii all ynij ootiUI. boy. Make a full report ano transcription for me If you should gel i mother send for me at ence." l urn mir. I Turtiiiitr. the old seaman opened the dr-.nr of the wirele" room to fight his way along the deck to the loo!;o:it's position. Inside the rroni ycuncr nar Mng dropped into a chr.ir before hi instrument and. bending over, burird his head In bis hand. Suddor.ly he sat up straight, tense Ir; every nerve and ruc!e. What wn that? Y'as! 1: his Imagination plnyiiv: tricks aain? No. lie could not If mistaken. There it was again He looked, listened, then sprang tr his feet, with a shriek of Joy. for fht little recorder in front of him becrar again slowly, as though fired, to click. "A A -A A." He road it oT nlond. with regret. "Just some bnttleship," he said bit terly to himself. "That's the navy call." Next his face lichted, and he Innrrhr-d aloud hysterically, for it was the uavy call, but it came from the irvessa. Im patiently the operator seized the tele phone. "Captain, captain." he shrieked, "I've got the Irvessa asairi, sir! Not Pinck ney this time. There's a man at the key. We can get something from this one. He can't send much, but he's all there with bis nerve." He dropped the telephone again a the receiver began to click: "Yacht Irvessa aground on reef. Po sition unknown, but within thirty mile of you getting this message. To indi cate relative position storm center now passing directly northeast of us. Heav lest lightning northeast by east. Can you make out our position?" The captain had re-entered the wire less room by the time the message was delivered. "Tell him." exclaimed the officer, "we can make out his probable posi Hon. We are steering southwest Pj west to find him. Ask him how lotiji he em last." The answer to the messatre cava back slowly, with every dot and dast absolutely distinct: "Half an hour." "Tell him," commanded the captain "we are twenty miles away probablj and can't make better than 12 knots an hour In this storm." A terrific flash of lightning for on blinding instant lit up the mountain ous waste of waves outside "Ask him where that lightning was.' shouted the officer. "East by north," the receiver clickec back. In another minute the course of tht ship had been changed one point t the southward, and all this while tht receiver slowly but steadily clicked out guiding news.' "We have two boats. Both boats left yacht ten minutes ago during break It communication with you. They seen understand direction you coming. Firs; boat .making for you. Look for its lights." An expression of admiration came ot the face of the old seaman. , "Then that fellow must have stayed behind to guide us a'nd save the people in the boat." he exclaimed. 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He seized the key and clicked off tht cheering r.ov.-s to the man on thf strat.ded Irvessa who used the navy call. Very firmly, but slowly, the answet ca me : "Yv'e shall not ontlive this Ptorrr gathering thicker. F.oth boats shouk: i live, if v.e are lost see that family o! I m:;:t v.i-o :ayed with me is re'Wardec I with tny property." i "1 wonder who that follow is," ex claimed the Mongolian's chief officer I "lMd ho tell yen?" Ilarlitig si- ok his head. "No. but he's a naval man. Ftp uso1 the navy ca'l. We're on him. Listen." He translated quickly: "You are tjct between tis and boats. See your light I'.oats s"Uth of you. Do not expect further directions. Going to pieces Stoer sotith " The first officer burst Into the wire less room. "Llere. sir." he exclaimed. "I'll tak your place. There is a search'.Ight or the starboard bow." The cupiain struggled out to th deck as Harling pounded this cheeritif message of help and appeal to stick: "See your light. C' lining. For God'! sake don't break yet." The answer was sharp and stern: "Don't try reach us. Boats havt twenty-six. Only two here." Even as the message came a fain' cheer rang out on the deck of th Mongolian. The first boat had beet sighted. Carefully because of the tre mendous waves the lifeboat bore dowi on the big ship. Slowly she edge around, then a rope was thrown ant caught. A rope ladder and other rope went over the side, and then almost be fore Harling eouid send another mes Not a -Cure-All" SEPARATE REMEDIES, EACH DE VISED FOR THE TREATMENT OF A PARTICULAR AILMENT. There is no "cure-nil" among 1h R xall Kemedies. There arc different and separate medicines, each one de vised for a certain human ailment or a class of ailments closely allied. For instance, Rexall Ds:;cpsia Tablets are recommended for the positive relief of stomach. Irritation, Indigestion, flatu lency and dyspepsia. Tli-y sre rich in P.ismuth-Subnitrate, IVpsIa and Carminatives. 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Who I.1 be?" demanded Harling. Pinckney did not answer, and Mrs Durant broke In "It's Lieutenant Sommers. He stay ed behind to guide you. What's hi saying?'' 'Tie wants to know If a'l are safe It the first boat." "Yes. but Frances." cried the moth er "France, where is she?" The clicking of the receiver cut of her speech. "He says- 'Don't give up pecont boat. Don't believe it lost." The captain of the Mongolian let on an oath. We can't stop for the second boat.' j he exclaimed "I'm coins for that fel I low. Tell him we're coming for him" Harling sent the message, but n mo j ment later the word rame from thi lookout : "Irvessa light gone." The light was gone. bi;t the Irvessi stfll held together, for the receiver ir the wireless room of the Mongolia! clicked out a sharp command: "Look for second boat. We stayed t save others. Don't come for us till yot find second boat." Almost at that moment the lookou sang a cheering word. "Another boat on the port bow. sir. 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