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!L_. - ..-1 .11.. BBS t [No Man’s “9 Land A ROMANCE By Loni* Joseph Vance niustratior ~ by Ray Wallen __ (Copyright, ipio, by Loato )o*eph VaaesJ "ttardT** commented Blackstodk. “You’ve got strength, haven’t you? Not as great as mine, though; you’d hardly realize bow Immensely strong I am. See now!” His hands moved swiftly back to Coast's throat and girdled it with a collar of Iron. "Do you realize I could easily squeeze your breath out cf.your body. I could!” Coast’s face explored the face above him. Its smile was gone. Something ran cold along his spine, and of a sud den he was without emotion, quite calm and collected. “But you won’t, you know,” he said easily; “that Is. you wouldn’t If you knew my right hand in my pocket was pointing a pistol directly at your heart. . . . Would you?” Perhaps the fact that he had merely stated the truth was responsible for Alio UUU1UUDO. • . • iAC UUIOU tuv Instinctive movement of the blind eyes, as If they sought to see If it •was true; and he thought: Habit Is strong. Raising his left hand, he grasped Blackstock's right by the wrist and removed it with a certain firmness. The other hand released him an In stant later, and the man stood back with a short laugh. “Bat you wouldn’t have fired?” “Not any sooner than you’d have tried to strangle me." “Of course I'd no such Idea—” “Of course not; but "you shooMa’t have suggested It You mads rom nervous.” For a momenfclt was as if the mask bad been dropped, as if they openly acknowledged one another as implaca ble enemies. And again Coast re marked that Blackstock quivered as be had when surprised, an hour be fore; a ripple of tensed muscles, hard ly to be detected, seemed to shake blm from head to foot—and was gone in a twinkling, while the hard smile reappeared on the Satyr's features. “Do you really tote a gun, Handy side?” “Always,” Coast rejoined briefly. “Why—up here—?” "You never can tell what’s going to ihappen.” “Perhaps you’re right.” Blackstock {conceded the point graciously. “I (don't mind, but you really ought not (to take a Joke so seriously. However, !• . . I’m full of sleep and you jmust be. . . . John—hat, cane.” (One of the servants brought them in stantly. “G’d-night, Handyside.” Blackstock hesitated an instant, (then got his bearings and found the back door with unerring accuracy. tOn the stoop he paused long enough ito say: “We’ll get together after breakfast and talk business;” and the blackness received him. Mystified, Coast waited, staring at the spot where he had last seen the man, until one of the Chinamen mild ly suggested that his room was ready. He followed the fellow stupidly, pre occupied, his mind ranging far in fu tile speculation as to the riddle of Blackstock's conduct. Long after he was left alone in the room that had been Power's he sat on the edge of the dingy bed, his gaze fixed upon the reflection of the lamp’s flame In the window panel—absorbed in the enigma. He could not rid himself of the im pression that an inarticulate menace lurked beneath Blackstock’s apparent ly unsuspicious reception of him. Was insanity the explanation? Was (the man in reality a homicidal maniac, iat whose intellect the lust to slay ace tlike a cancer? . . . But in such •case, would he have delegated to an jother the assassination of Power? Did he or did he not suspect? Bid jthat sudden slip of the mask signify jthat he had merely allowed himself to appear to be deceived and was but •waiting to deliver some telling stroke iln retaliation? How much has Coast to apprehend, (what to guard against? To this latter question his every in istlnct answered in chorus: E>very jtaing. He dared leave no stone un turned to safeguard himself—that he anight remain able to protect Kath erine. It oame to him that it was iio'" in likely he had been left in that lonely cottage with the three Chinese that they might quietly make away with •him while he slept With this in mind he took a more detailed inventory of his surround tings; and found them hopelessly ex •posed. Unquestionably he would have been wafer in the open; but the storm was now at the top of Its fury. Sheets of water were sluicing the house as If cast from some gigantic bucket. Danger within seemed very much preferable to misery with out. More than that, if Black stock bad planned an attempt upon his life during the night, Coast might as .well know it; for he was armed and .unafraid, and he who knows what to dear is doubly armed. Having wedged a chair beneath the tknob of each door, he placed the lamp ttjpcu the table, turning It low thatUs scanty store of oil might last the night, and sat down on the bed, the pillow at his back, Appleyard’s pistol ready at his side. Insensibly as the dead hours 1 ^gtd marked by no disturbance foreign to the storm, his weariness bore heavily upon him. His thoughts blurred Into a chaotic jumlie of incoherencles. He nodded, drowsed with chin on I Every Nerve on the Qui Vive. breast, roused with a start when some unusually violent squall swooped over the Island, drowsed again, and In the end slipped over upon his side and slept the sleep of the exhausted, pro found and dreamless. . . . CHAPTER XV. Coast awakened with a gasp, Jump ing to his feet as If to the peremptory summons of a subconscious alarm clock. Such, In fact, was more or less the case; he who sleeps upon the thought of danger Is apt to waken with that thought predominant A moment gone everything had been densely dark, with that narcotic black ness which characterizes the slumbers of the overworked and overwrought.; ,Now in a twinkling he found himself intensely conscious, in the middle of | the floor, pistol In hand, every nerve on the qul vive, every muscle tense. Gradually he realized that his nerves must have tricked him, that the hair trigger of Ms suspended faculties must have been pulled by some com mon but unexpected noise. The room was bright with garish daylight; at the doors the chairs were in plhde, as he had left them; there was not a sound to be heard In the house. Very stealthily he opened the hall door and looked out. From the silence within doors, there was no one else astir. He went out and back to the kitchen, finding It empty. After some momentary hesitation he returned to bis room, found a towel and took It with him out Into the open. He went quickly down through the Cold Lairs to the beach. The Echo was gone, but this did not surprise him; It had been Appleyard’s purpose to heave anchor and get away as soon as the gale showed signs of slacken ing. Inside the sheltering spit a sturdy little catboat was dancing crazily at Its mooring, but It was evi dently deserted, and Coast rightly guessed that the vessel belonged to Blackstock, that Its tender was the boat which Power had been accused of stealing—principally, no doubt, to al lay the suspicions of Katherine; some | means of accounting for the man’s dis appearance had necessarily to be In vented. The boat was, of course, no where to be seen; doubtless Black stock had caused It to be carried up and secreted In one of the abandoned dwellings, or In some recess beneath the bluffs to the west and Bouth. It was In the shelter of the westerly bluff that Coast stripped and took to the water. Here, as all round the island, the beach shelved boldly, tne surf breaking ciose inshore. | Scrubbing his flesh aglow, he dressed quickly, tingling with the ex hilaration of his recent contest, every trace of fatigue and drowsiness j washed clean away. A sense of life and well-being ran like quicksilver through his veins; he could have sung aloud or whistled but for the sobering thought, never far beneath the sur face of his consciousness, of his re sponsibility. With Katherine to guard and care for, with Blackstock to watch and guard against and circum-1 vent, there could be little room for j cheerfulness in his humor. Instead of returning the way he had j come, an impulse moved him to scale the bluff, which at this point pre | sented not too steep an acclivity. As he continued along the sole, ap proaching the heel of what has been Jlkened to a crude sketch of a child’s shoe, Coast remarked the crumbling, stone walls of what had apparently | once been a rude summer house and observatory set atop the highest hil I lock to seaward. But he had drawn j quite near to It before he descried a hem of skirt whipping round a cor ner of a half-fallen wall. He quick ened his steps and took her sue '■’nly unawares as she stood, half-Bhi b red from the breeze and wholly invisible from the body of the island, her back to the weather-beaten and li aliened stones, her gaze leveled to seaward In somber reverie. It was as If she had been expecting him; she seemed not at all surprised. But there was no light of welcome in her look, nor any trace of welcome in her greeting as he stopped before her, bat in hand and heart in his throat, with something in his bearing that called to mind a child convicted of transgression and pleading for suspen , sion of judgment. "I came out here to think,” she said —“at least to try to thlnji. But I I apid that If you saw me'you woulc follow." "I'm glad," he said; “though I dldn'i It now you were .ere.' It’s hardly llko ty we’ll have 00 good a chanoe to tall again." "Yea," she admitted simply. Then was a little catch in her voice and b< fancied her lips quivered like the llpi of a tired child as she looked awaj from him, seeking again the sight 0 the sea aa if she draw from It boum solace, some sorely needed strengtl against her trials. "We must talk, o: course. ... I have been trylni all night to think . . . but every thing seems so. . . .” She left the sentence Incomplete raising her hands to press then against her temples and then dropping them with a gesture of utter wear) □ess. "Oh,” she cried, “why did you com< back? You promised, you went away opd I—I was sorry for you and prayec you might find happiness, Garrett You promised, and—you came back— came bacx like a ghost to haunt m< with memories and regrets.” Hei voice rose to a pitch of wildness "Sometimes, last night, I thought tha surely you must be a ghost—that yoi bad been executed, killed and burled and were come back to be his punish ment and mine, and mine!” “His punishment—his?” he echoed "Then, Katherine, then you do be li6ve—!” ‘‘Ah, how do I know? What do I be lieve—what can I believe? I don’ know. I can’t think right; it’s all si —so terrible.” Her tone fell to < low pitch of fatigue, dejection and be wilderment. She leaned heavil: against the wall, watching the sullen IntarminAhle succession of the suraes "You sowed doubt in my mind an< fear in my heart when you bade weigh what I once knew of the goo< In you against what I have learned o him. I tried—so hard!—tc do s Justly and still believe you the guilt: one. . . . You swept the groum from under me with arguments, you attitude, your explanations; * am though they were yfrar unsupported words. ... I never kne* you t< lie to me, Garrett, and I oouldn’t can’t believe you would bring me a 11 to torture me, Just for revenge. . . You nude me think, and—at times feared I should go mad, and tbei ngn-ln I was afraid I wouldn’t . . . She turned suddenly to him and graei lng his arms, lifting frantic, piteou eyes to his. "Oh, Garrett, Garrett! she pleaded, half hysterically, “tell m you lied, tell me It isn’t true, tell m it was you—!” He shook his head sorrowfully, am with a short dry sob she released hir and fell back against the wall, shake! and trembling. “If,” he said, slowly—“if I though it would make you happy. If I believe that any good of any sort could com of it to you, Katherine, if I could evei think it safe, I would lie—I’d lie witi a clear conscience and tell you it wa I who killed Van Tuyl. I’ve take time to think it over and I’ve trie to think straight, to think the way tha would be best for you, and . * . Well, I’ve come back." "But why?” she repeated abruptlj "Why? What good can you do? Cki you lift this weight from my heari can you right the wrong to yourseli by being here? Can you bring Va: Tuyl back to life or make my—th man I married less than a mui derer—?” “I came to protect you; you wer alone and friendless.” “He would not harm me,” she sai in an uncertain voice. “Do you believe that? Do you e> pect me to believe it when I have see: the marks of his brutality upon you arm?” “He didn’t mean It, Garrett. H has his temper and—and sometimes h forgets and doesn’t realize his strengt —but he would never do worse. 1 it’s true—and, oh, I know it must be —that he did—what you were accuse VJL-it Lino lwcu a 1CB9DU iu uuu. * * sure it has. He—” Garrett shook his head. “Then wha made you write that message las night?” he asked. “What do you mean? ... 01 I don’t know. I was afraid . . .” “And I was afraid,” he said gravel: “and still am. That’s why I couldn stay away. The only man you coul turn to in case of need was gom it “Mr. Power?” She flashed him startled look. “How did you know that yesterday And how did you find another man t take his place—his name, and ever: thing? So that you dared come her in his stead . . .!” “I found it out before I left tb island yesterday morning,” he sat Blowly, wondering how much he dare tell her. (Continued Next Week.) Non-Resident Notice. STATE OP MISSISSIPPI. To the unknown heirs at law of James Kellui deceased. To all unknown heirs at law of Jam Wilscn and Rachel R. Wilson, deceased, and to i unknown parties, firms or corporations owning claiming to own any interest in certificate of sto No. 4599 for two shares standing on the books the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Company, in the hat of James Wilson and the unpaid dividends due i said stcck. Defendants. 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