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Possibly those enigmatic“ venom intended that absence of a definite three: to imply the ineoneeivubiy terrible." Now tint he had started to tell about it. i whhed thut he hid contin- ued his silence. I could not under- emnd how I had convinced him he- iore. knowing all the while that 1 VIII without truth to support me. Cer- tainly. now, pervaded on I was with that grim dilquietude, it would be even more dliileuit to our! conviction with my words. Augmm can?“ IX. mmumofl! Than «no 3 Itasca. half-mum :2? NH»!!! look in tho nur- cyan. that no one should know.” 11:. captain comm Ma fight hoe with In: rocked banal. “All the name.” he laid. "he'd never have been ”mm of thin yacht If 1" a’ known what van In the wind.” m statement annoyed me. and I recanted It. , “What could you have done?" I ant-IL "l m with him about con- WW "Under the circumstances, Ir. Clyde. don't you think it would ban “What veto the m than?“ he and. may. 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How could he even have got out of hll chair. without my honing him 2" The uptaln Ihruuod his shoulders. “There's no other explanation," he decided, concluolvoy. “You mean ho oouunlttod suicide?" “Cull u what you like. air." “But there was no reason for him to do Inch 3 thlns.” I objected. he’s OWI'DOIru. .ma Imoe u‘mo wu no one Interested in throwing him there. then It mem- very clear am In must have Jumpefi.” f, it.“ to u- mm mm»... no. IIIâ€"Ind unt'u very mm to I. Macro! them cut not. I no. chased?" he naked. I nodded. 'Not gmlcamommn’honltml hor? Who eh. Iii let?"- Mnmhnmtmudm. III. 10th sum-u hmmbmmu.‘ Alina. aim-ymlmdzw Mini-m? Batu-10M “lawman?“ lummm-gmtn 'fiefihvknlmiMwwf’h mnivflknduodrm-eu. “int-4‘- not an; In about u anummâ€"mlmfl hnmlan-eo-entm mmammpmm 'mlmnmm' ”Wthtf'le-b ‘thnd'twde' “tam-do?” mmna.1waud. And “ml.” Mqlmthtfllet. mm con-math“ mammmdn A Iymd-dtonficulin. “Ion, Ir. 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Now I'm not montlonlug the am. whno you were In hero. early In the evening. but durlug the Inn «ulnar of on hour boron you cove the alarm. you weren't with Mm. olthor.” Vlmutholphhertormm- mt In absolute dumb anus. “60 “night thud. captain. You no perfectly rlsht.“ A , "You no then oughtn’t to In an! mamas-standing betan you and me, air. This I- too seriou- 3 bus!- neu to be bungled because I am only «pain or this yacht and you are the ownsr'l mend. lo. It I up“: plnluly, sir. you’ll understand why. and not. think [no diam-maul." I mailed to manure him. It!!! put- Ilod. and added: “You aid you vault-Donia; for m mi N mm mmnw; mm mm“ mm. W.“ m.mmumm m ”tmrmhmnmmm 3% «mg... m ”mammmm .m y mmw mmmmm.m«mnmmm.nmmm.mn m: mmmmmmmmi her new. «all. What I tell vu lam». h it- Mark charity. mm.fllmfl harm“ that m to tom. I an“ In” hummus-glam. .mmmm m E -mmm Wu u M. Do. "it w mkfinmlutu‘ all.” mutuuaummumu our lam-diam mum-1n. Whit-away. "null. mnhhulundllu a” ham OM. In In! “no!“ mum-man... m ”commutator-Inch” Mnummwurmd. nndm.nthutmmu- mm. mam mm «mmmm .ummmm eon-min; that. boat with It. It W and than he mud. thou“- !nl nun. “WI not In Mini.” )0 wentmnflertuoond.'thutky could bu. placid bin or wluunno. Butlfwtellovluw‘oluuh-Ol. Mun!!! Input-atom- vuy out. All tho-union.” In (but can in night. nnd If v. on only“ thin] notion! of». 8151“. min. we'll and out what the II All vhuhrbulmh. Mongol-Ills.“ Vilfléflérordr 7 ’ captain I clan. which he declined. "In; Us pm In on!» once. When I lighted 3 am an“. “Well. sir, I couldn't In! exactly. She was In sight only a mlnuto. coma lug In range of our own 1!th BM looked more like a tug than myth!“ also: but the had more we“ than my tag I ever 08'. She hadn't "In line- of a yacht." “Sho'wun’t a pilot boat?” "02:. no, air. New York mm M cruise this far out. and tho Bolton pilot: wouldn't he no In! any man homo either." "I alumna you have IOIIO theory. lacked. You don't urloully‘tlunl 1: VII suicide!“ neither of his ltatomentn Ind to II. mum corroboration. For my own wart I van sure that, at tho than he mentioned. no vessel of any (lo-orb tlon had panned anywhm near)“. ‘ “Whit am you make tin can out to be?" po‘nyehA h dent. (To be continued.) CHAPTER X. / 9";