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Carter, The engineer nodded. “It's nought but & make-shift though,” he admitted. “I'm rig- ging rd come by h pine err of Belden, a young and at t e Scotsman, and they fall in love. "ts New York they are much in one another's. company, antl gos- siping tongues and newspapers state that the young’ Lord, who is noted in the throes of poverty, is try- ing to arrange with t heiress to the Briant miilions. ly asks her uncle whether this her refusing t title, Briant tells her that unless she coe lav of withont a bteny. “To Be Sole Rap. Saree Dore, Sy Neer eee : . Aires." his surprise she goes; r ana ng Ww . o you are going to your home- Pca wounded and her ideal of Certil land ioe the first time, then?” re- in! Belden shatte Unable to find employment, she stows away on a yacht owned, al- though she did not know it at the time, by a New York shipper, i lace and Knapp is very her hiding A heavy fog descen kind to her. them. feanwhile, Briant engages a pri- valé detective who iiscovers§ that S 7 susP demands of ‘s that something Is am hat it is. He with anger. Maier VI, Continued) e days went by with no change in nate conditions, Molly had be- come hardened to it all, blunted. Indeed, she weary of the excitement of expect- ng any’ moment to be their doom. Those shattering ‘buffetings which they repeatedly endured, invariably just failed to start the expected leak, which, again and again, cold) reason had declared inevitable, n the morning of the fifth day, the storm I!fted, though the sky and | sea were just as grey and bleak. Molly visited the conning tower and spept an hour or so looking out, fas- cinated, upon that grey, boiling cauldron. One momént they would be pkinged Ina deep valley of hurry- ing, hissing water, and their entire submergence seemed inevitable, with the towerlng watera ing up and breaking and crashing in terri- fic glory all around; the next mom- ent, miraculously, it was as thoug the very bottom of the engulfing valley were upheaved by some Vol-/ canic ‘cataclysm and the Beryl was: perched perilously on a rushing, | hurrying cliff-edge of water, from! which eminence a vast expanse of | pitching billows could be seen crash-| ing and thundering noisily, or rolling j in sullen silence, silence that! threatened an outburst all the more | terrible and devastating. | Molly pidge Bi the young man’ who held the el. i eda do behing think of it, Ji ie ahe asked Jim Warton was - lad of eighteen | who worked on eorge Knapp's part of the Old Sixty-Four dock, and | slept In one of the warehouses. He had never been farther from New! York by Water than Seaside Park. He shock his head and smiled, but, did not reply. “It seems to me more like a dream | than real life,” said Molly. “It's almost as though this sea — on thete Is In the universe—as t New York and poe rest of the world were no longer r Evidently ry Warton had been thinking this sert of thing, for he aodded appreciatively. “And what wouldn't you give to be safely back on the Qld Sixty-Four dock?" sald Molly pleasantly. Jim grinned. “I don't care nothing now that I'm not sick any more,” he told her. Molly understood. ‘as just beg:‘mning to saraé Use delight of being up and about a And now she pa “tacie as great angry cliff-edge of water came hurrying flercely towards them. And then, like a flash it had gone, the Bery] having been shot up into the air by a mighty catapult, and that seemingly insurmountable wave slip- ped ee: smoothly, beneath “People write about storms,” re- marked Molly, half to herself, “ont you've got. to be in one to know what Jim nodded his head. “Them books don't make yer feel | that a storm le something, is some-| the |. n | eyes. “Oh, Baie erled Molly. © ‘‘Mr. Knapp tella me that you are des- cénded from a long line of ative engineers. All the best marine en- glneers are Scottish, aren't they?” she added with a roguish twinkle. “All the best men everywhere are cottish,” said Campbell with final- ity. Apparently there was nothing more to be said, “What part of Scotland aid you come from?" asked Moll “I've never 40 much as seen it," marked Molly. Campbell satis “T've often heard about it,” he aaid. “My peSple have all lived on the Clyde, since long before the firat steamship.” Molly was looking, almost fascin- atealy, at his particularly ugly, mis- hapen, discolored face, when Camp- bell Jooked up and nodded. “Yes, there's not “gee ante of it,” he agreed, with grim That made Molly at. "go, this strunge ugliness was not natural to him, she decided, in some surprise. ne of the boys lost their lives, eome limb. lost my manly peanie’ laughed Campbell. Still, Molly could see that there was & nee in that laugh. “Yes, I joined up with nthe Can- dians right a . he shook his smouldering anger came “and we poor fools thought that it was a war to end war! es why we gave ourselves.” again he shook his head. something pathetically hopeless about him. “An d now, the politi- clams are as busy as ever, piling up armaments, and getting ready for the next war. it's the only cure for. unemployment!" | With that he made a dive for a plece of brass tubing, and began to cut out a leather disc plunger to fit t And there was eomething. abont his over-wrought manner that caused Molly to get up quietly and leave him. Without donbt Campbell was for the moment overcome by his in- dighation and resentment against civilization. f only we could end war once and for all," she said to herself, as ishe lurched Br staggered along to- : wards the c Tt wes att ar two days more before Campbell had any success. e, he had got that Tnerp vised: jn@ricaticn system to function, but, again an again, the sparking plugs. oiled up al- most at once, and the engine had to be stopped. And still the storm raged on unabated. That evening Molly and George Knapp were together in the cabin. “When will this gale stop?’’ cried Molly, exasperated. “When the direction of the wind _ changes, probably,” he “So It's still from then?” she aske the He nodded. “Tf only it had taken it Into Its head to come from the west,” she said with a laugh, “we might have reached me Clyde, by this. es, it's taken us diroetly. out of ‘our way,” said George Kna ys 8 i Soar — it's ie to h up rock-bound coast-line?”™ she asked @artebn “There's nothing much between us and South America, I imagine,” he 7” was “Of course—we've been travelling eouth all this time,’ she erled. ‘'That's why it's so much warmer." He nodded. “It's a million to one chances against our bumping Into anything, either another veésel, or land," he tol “We're quite off the reg- ular steamship Janes. No, don't a | think ve should hit anything if we want The epttowing day was fine and clear, though there was no sun, and the gale still blew almost as strongly. t was Teassuring to Molly to hear George Knapp say that it could not last much longer. Then, to- wards evening, a cry came from the conning tower and everyone hurried there to find that Jim Warton be- lieved that he had slighted land. The glasses were passed around, and it was agreed that there did ap- pear to be a shadowy eomething on thing alive, something that is after yer, and means to get yer “Exactly!" agreed Molly. ion even that is absurd, Jim, really. It does seem to us almost ‘ though there ls some mighty. power inex- orably bent on swamping us ont of existence. But It's » not ~ true, course,” "T'd r 4 Jim Warton And that made Molly laugh. It relleved the tension greatly. “Anyhow, there's not much use, ot sense, in all these elémental, des- tructive forces,” she remar z a Sure we &h And with -that ‘she went down to see how Campbell was oicten , won't {atertere win he said. “I shall. * ee my. work” ather have that than be se2-}) Mr. began very delicate- y 1 up a. apEmuing system that'll I supopse they'll tell us| 788° north, “He elp!" “Stand aside,” he eald. And the nat aot hg P hha his great ulk against the dor, parma tr” The .} inwards. ) “Thank God!" he cried fn gre relief. “You're all right. aren't ou? the distant western ~ horizo: their present c Their only sufety, indeed, wis in keeping to the epen sta “I wonder what that land could be, if ft was land?” said Moily, just before eg retired. * “We've never had-a single gleam from the sun since we started,” sa:d Knapp, “so we can't tell where we are. It's most likely one of the West Indian Islands. It’s ‘hardly liicely to be anything more south- hat a horrible isituation to be cried Molly. “Not knowing where we are, to. ondraty of miles.” George Knapp shrugged h's shoul- ders and smiled, “There's only one consdlation to me in your present predicament,’ he #8. “You came quite uninvited, 80 you can't ‘blame me for your troubles.” of blaming “T wouldn't dream you,” she gaid. “I took my chance, and, I still don’t regret it." “Oh, thank you!” said Knapp gratefully. “And it’s up to me to see that you never regret it. Certeinly you'll not do so if I can prevent it." Molly gave him an uneasy glance. They had grown very intimate dur- ing this terrible ardeal, as was only ecg Life had been a constant nxiety, for daya -now, = \ cel had shared that anxiety toget “Tt has been a terrible experience” she said, with a shudder. “To me it has been a wonderful experience,” he said. “And I nesad not say that your presence has been a great heartening. Somehow, [ have never Once thought of the Beryl going down. That seemed imprcssi- ble, with you on board. I felt that it was my duty to land you safe and sound. Anyway, you are the Beryl's ot."” “T'm afraid I'm a poor ezort of a mascot,” she said, “if I can’ ‘t i you with better weather ine iaughed, held out her ‘hand, and said good-night. Georg little Croan than was actually nec- essary, and there was a look of un- usual warmth in his eyes. till, that was all. And Molly told herself that there was really nothing to take ex- ception “to in his having held her pane #8 & moment longer than he need av “Lets hope that everything ~ all right in the morning,” sald, “with the lovely sun shining and gy Campbell's engine running right ast.” e ~ “And then for a eawift run to Bonnle Scotland!" he said eagerly. “And when we get there I'll ron you round to one or two of pol friends, You do promise to let me?” Most certainly I aot she said. “Bat {t's awfully kind of you. Her eyes fell before his. There was something In his look that said he wished to be much more kind than that, CHAPTER VII Very Much At Sea Molly was asleep. But, always, night as welP as day, she was con- scious of the gale, conscious of the thundering and pounding of the waves against the Beryl's decks, and even more conaclous of the rolling and pitching°which at first had brufsed her against her berth-side. Tonight she dreamt of the gal And it seemed to her to be more terrible than ever.- In her dream she saw an unusually gigantic wave bearing the yacht rushingly up and up. And then there came the rend- ing crash. Molly woke to find that she had been flung out of her berth. A she lay on the floof she could hea the steady grinding and_ grating down nd, yes, she could feel wajer! There was water com- ing up through the floor of her cab- in! Electrified by fear ahe gave a ery and struggled up and felt for the electric Ught switch ut, when she moved it over, no light came. With a sudden sinking of the heart she put her hand out to the handle of the door and turned &. But, apparent- But, no, on thrn- 9 it was locked. DE hr key she found it was not locked, The door had jammed? What had nabpenoa? But pow she heard a volce out- side. It was George Knapp. Thank heaven for that! . “Are you all right?” “Don't waste a ae a rock or someth “My door's sens, " Molly cried. he erled, We've hr Molly robbed ber grazed elbow. mi was flung ont on to the floor,” e said, “still, I'm not much the ates thanks. What t are we going to do?” “Better xem with me.” ‘he “No time to dress—pyjamas will have to tec de Eerste for both of us for the presen “What Bout | the men?” she cried. * “Oh, they'll be-all right.” he wat. 1 -all- life-belts?” eg tt ‘to my arm.” ana turned back Into cabin, toute her ea noe’ and ws? had it ve a rik eat sa ection, seeing t 6° was ‘ - L running, Mogever, it would be| «yr, Just a oaths top dangerous to app land in|of q heen wr ltest. There's a Jot of ed Knapp held her hand a make for the con-/ of the yacht, "Tt looks as beet oe we'v ve ground- d- e Knapp, “in which case we're jolly ainaky that a8 of thing.” ow, I was right, when I I santa land, yesterday,” sald in- sisted Jim Warton with unco humor. z . “Look, there’s the dawn,’ said Campbell, pointing to th “Th od fi that!" said Knapp. And a few moments later he could dimly make out the con- und on which figuration of the gro the Beryl had broken he ck. “It. looks like reef," he said. “And she seenis have settled more. She's not grinding and rock- ing as ehe did.” Molly realized the truth of this. “I suppose we're fairly safe for a meé, at any rate?" she sald. Knapp nod ‘ shouldn't be surprised,” he said “Perhaps you'd like to rush back to your eabin and get into your things? Molly nodded eagerly. She as by no means squeamish, but it would certainly be more comforting ‘to be properly dressed. “What about you sir?” sald Camp- bell. “We haven't had time to have our things am Lonny Why not you get dressed, And so he sor Molly hurried back to Muri ances “Don't torget to keep your cork Jacket handy,” he reminded her as they parted In the gangway. When they got back to the con- ning tower Campbell Bi stings them that the storm was . he sea .. a ite humorist, " re- marked Kna Tt’ arted to be- have Itself a Mitte late og the day, In my opinion.” Campbell shook his head. “Tt It had kept up much ldnger we should have been washed off this reef, all right,'’ he said, “It looks as though we're high and dry now," waid Molly, “And there's no water coming through This was true, though the eea was still rough. The storm waa still going on, modi- fled, and some feet down below. They now opened the conning tower hatch, and got the glasses to work. All around them were lagoons form- ed by rocky ridges. It was evident that the Beryl had been swept over several rocky barriers, only to meet her.end at last on this large, weed- covered rock. The reef ran in an irregular line towards what appeared al the present uncertain light, to to be resently it was revealed as a tiny island, apparentiy of cor- raHine formatlon, ough {ft af peared to bear a sparse vegetation. As the morning wore on Jim War- ton, Campbe!] and Johnston volun- teered to set out in the dingy to in- vestigate. George Knapp had _ eager to accompany them but, as would only carry three, with oe Molly had begged him to remain. And 4o the dingy—which had re- mained lashed securely ta the deck— was carefully lowered into the water. Already the wind had fallen somewhat, and thanks to the reefs that almost entirely surrounded them, the sea was certainly smooth enough to make the venture reason- ably safe. Jim feturned in Tess “than. ap hour to report that the island = uninhabited, though there was tumble-down shack, and one patel of Iand bore traces of having _ cultivated. Molly and Knap joined Jim and presently Molly had the satisfaction of feeling dry land under her feet. men now set off again to el the ppc of food and fresh water, as caution against the posslbili ty of the yacht being washed off again in the event of the storm rene ’ They were greatly interested In the little thane, Everything’ was moet primitive, the Praciawork., be'ng made of planks that had obviously pido had ge a Cuban. Johnston finding confirmation of his theory In a dozen Molly was greatly epee wg - this former colonist. Why he left the teland? ‘Had he Ms, skante to make a living? Or had he simply tired of h‘a little paradise, _ esene off back to Havana? Or, even to the ever-calling wae York? Throughout the day the dingy made trips to “the yacht, returning with all manner of stores. They quickly rigged up a h.tent for , While the original sleeping over to Molly, the ed up ae a living room. That evening a cOnsultation was held. One thing was obvious, there was no fresh spring water on the is . Bo that they could rely uo the water that they had In the tank eases of lomonade, unless, of co rain came and they conld - collect cu of that. t t u made to get wt touch with civiliza- ¥ ed the garden land, tute except for a few q|take her with them. But then she ‘garden, collect m to reassure both himself and Molly. when they start “There's not a doubt about aaa Molly, perhaps © with vebenionce than convict O need for_‘stove-a-room’ heating with a Happy Thought Heater in the home. It has the appearance of a handsome piece of furniture and exceeds in beauty and in duty the old-fashioned heater of -yesterday. Tt not.only radiates heat but circulates — throughout the entire house. Burns any kind of fuel...wood, coal or coke. 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Why. one of you stay behind and let Fohn- ston go instead?” a “It was obvious, however, that And | a? neither of them cared for the idea! said Molly. i cave ‘me wane of taking Johnston alone. =a, I should have left one of | “If you don’t mind, sir,” said "" he Tained. Bat Molly shook her hea Campbell, os and Ta rather hang un it was best that you should stay. abe together. We'll take the darkie if you like. As you say, he might come said. in useful.” Bate 5 if anything shonld har And so that was how the matter) happened, if I am to be left alone wes arranged. here, it couldn't have been anyone Molly stood and watched ~ but yor.” dingy rowed away a terrible sane of| ‘She gare him 2 ¢andid Uttle smile loneliness came over her. She felt peda made a lump come impelled to call out and beg then to into = his Z cNOW, it's very nice of you tn say that,” Ke said. “Yow seam to (:tr' mre all Payee would my own brothe: said Molly ae remembered Mr. Enapp. After all, ‘ste would not be entirely alone. Be- sides, the dingy would return long before night. There could be no doubt whatsoever atout that. orgs darted a happ. That day was filled with eager| diffident took at her. planning and arranging. For in-| d bless you for that!” he <a! stance, they worked out how much; “Yes. whatever comes, you ean \'- food and water each should have per| ¥4y3 rely on me just lke that." day. They- went carefully over the 1 almost aw: surprised, by the look of reverence that he ca: her. It filled her with a strange «: easiness, anxiety ts too, George Kno had proved @ most understand: - he few tomatoes that were ripe. ey arranged a rough system of canvas water-spont- ing, so that, should there’ be any rain, they might collect it from the} shack roof, which they had epread with a big white gall. For all this they expressed the conviction that the dingy would certainly bring vessel along to carry them to civill- zation. They might have to stay on this dear little island for a couple of days at the «post, but certainly n © was of him, for that " er—but now she realized that he hi ' hee in love. It ca Wpon be: longer. er! with a rash ‘of Reetide At last the sun set, and still thg| ™@nt. George Knapp was fallin: | dingy had not return George ha love. with “Dervett What wag coin: taken the precaution lighting two| ' heppent of the hurricane lamps, which he eet (To Be Continued) on the roof of the shack, and they ~~ Ste be to be anxious about the dingy} ‘YELL PACKED and the rest of the party “A q course,” sald George, anxious dy ane | her: i daug a ttle were walking thro 8 fedhionah : street when they femariis a port i “that land over_there can’t ‘be much |'strewn With stra nearer than twenty miles, And they; the noise of ‘vehich es passin . roe weren't in any too # dition i in ed,”’ ry jon. Bed a —_,. BS