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Phone orders promptly at- fended to, Service and satisfaction guaranteed to our patrons, UR. PATRONAGE SOLICITED yo PRINCE CAFE D. LEE, Prop. Phone 243 | | —— Love's Stowaway John L. Carter MOLLY Sc pg niece of a New York milHonal BELDEN of ene = young and d they fall in love. In New York ‘Gay are much in one another's company and gos- siping tongues and newspapers state the young Lord, who is noted to be in the throes of poverty, is trying to arrange a marriage with the heiress to the Briant millions, Molly asks her uncle whether this is true, and he says that, it is. On her refusal to be bartered for title, Briant tells her that unless she complies with his wishes, he will send her off without q penny, To his surprise she ; her pride wounded and her ideal of Cecil Bel- den shattered. Unable to find te Hot stows away on a owned George Knapp, a Keer York shipper, to whom she had unsuccessfully ap- plied for work. After first night she ventures from her hiding pee and George Knapp is very kind rR A heavy gale sets in and und oe a small, te she b id si agroun habited island. men search of help hee sand that is Fadl ed, but fail to re George falls shy aie with Molly, but she tells him s can never think of him as other than a broth- er, Aavd day hears a ¢ry and sees Moll} struggling with a man and two other men disappearing into the hut, He goes to the rescue, but one of the men shoots him before they rush off to their boat. Fear- ing the worst, Molly kneels dawn be- side the prostrate figure. CHAPTER X It now occurred eo her to put her hand over his hea “Thank God! T ak still feel h‘s heart,” she whisper And she busied herself getting — water - and rT I George would live! How epetioly Lonely she felt! Even the sound of her own movements fright- ened her. Oh, if George d‘id go, she must go too At last - © had finished bathing and dressing the woun She now spread a rug at his side and grad- ually drew it underneath him. And then, exerting all her strength, she gently dragged him [nto the shack, and made him as comfortable as possible na the floor was just on ask "before he re- gaided consciousness. He seemed Sorsieiy weak. as though that flat-nosed revolver bullet had shattered his nerve. Later in the evening, however, she was able to rouse him sufficiently to give her some little help in getting him into bed. But then he lay dozing, and apparently unconscious of his sur- roundings. He spoke only once. “T don't care for anything as long as you are safe." And then he closed his eyes and seemed to doze off. At the first opportunity Molly re- leaded the gun. One couldn't be too eareful.. At the back of her mind was a terror that those scoundrels might return at any moment. And why * No doubt they believed they had already satisfactorily ac- counted for George. ould they not come back? ‘They had managed to get away with some of the'r booty, but they had no doubt seen enough to make them want more. And so, every few minutes, she would run to the door of the shack and look out to see if there socn as she had made him comfort- able and after assuring herself that that boat was nowhere about, she paddled the raft across to the wreck. Her one thought was the wireless. What a fool she had been. y hadn't she Insisted upon its belng put right the very first day! If that wireless set had been In order, and she had understood it, she have got a message through, perhaps secure medical afd in time to Save George's Hfe—yes, and In time to save herself from going mad, Arrived at the yacht ehe collected all the books on wireless telegraphy and then she went and examined the wireless set. Apparently there was not much wrong with it now, from what George had eald. She noticed, ‘| on the wall y |e the beg haeg a blue print diagram of the wiring. It wag teas intelligtt ble than Greek | to her, course, at present, but she! soak dunks believed that, after thoroughly studying those text books and their numerous experi- | mental diagrams, she might ‘be able} to get along. ealdes posstbly George would be able to tell ter what to do. But for several days George never really regained consciousness! And as each day passed Molly's terror of being left alone Increased. She | would wake up in the night with a} terrified conviction that those dark- skinned fiends had returned. And try as she would, she could not blot} out the hideoua image of her assail-/ ant's face as he wrested the gun) from her and flung her to the e} tots It had been a sickly pale- brown mask of a face, the eyes &: repellant yellow wondered what the tascaial Sxont ee coctahiie: Beaver Brand Carbon Paper anc riter Typew and are gue ia of. Buy. _ Biber Bibhons do not emudg: to give. twice ribbons and ca office uf ‘n, she must get lesa aaa Once she had accom-» plished that, @he felt certain that, by trying various wave 6: could be able event in| failed. 4 comel ually to get | communication with fea rock on which they had been cast aoe was eomewhere In the West In- ies. That was a relief anyhow. membered that she had ke George at the time what that “ap- prox."’ meant and he had Spats that it meant avery Toughly.* Again and again Molly wouid ga out and look at that distant blur on the western horizon, which they believed to be land. If that were, as-they belleved, Cuba, or Trinidad, or Santa Domingo, or Porto Rico, or one of the other larger gnreuy a vessel must eurely come wit sight before long? And yet, eaves had sald that that was by no means the case.- As he said, In the Baha- mas group alone thera were’ three thousand large and small Jslands actually charted, yet ofly twenty- ning of them were inhabited. This Isiand on which they were, waa con- celvably one of those thousands, lit- érally a no-man's-land, which was of interest to nobody ‘but themaelves. Evidently some settler had tried to make a living, and apparently had As George had sald, unless oe settler produced enough to pay or the stores and clothes he requir- od, he would quickly find himself bankrupt and obliged to go else- where. As it was they could only hope to be seen by some ship that had strayed from the regular steamship lanes, or else that one of the boats that traded in these watery should make a chance call, in the samé tray that those rogues had done, with apparently no definite cbject in view. During these seemingly intermin- wble days and nights, during which she struggled to save George's life— truly for his cake—but, also, a thou- sand times more, for her own—she found herself forever forming ana consider'ng fresh plans. She would tell herself that, in the event of George dying, she would make the tfaft much larger, entirely recon- struct it, in fact, and as soon as the wind was favorable, set out to reach that distant shadow which she be- But, invariably urn to her conviction that it might ‘be far wiser to rema‘n here on the island with the ills and terrors ‘she knew, rather than com- mit herself to,a step which might le to conditions unspeakably worse! Waa it likely that she smeath escape the fate that had overtaken Campbell and his companions? In- deed, it was extremely probable that she would never reach land, since a raft was almost entirely mercy of the elements. less touch, with the mi She never dowbted that, once she had established communications, she could be found. She would tell them that she was on a small, tree- less coral island at the end of a reef, some twenty miles from the nearest land, which latter was dir- ect ext, and somewhere about Latitude ty and Longitude 72, and that it had a large shack covered with white canvas _ was 7 blaz- ing landmark the sun. TL mes- sage woul on to her acte. And he, wel, never d. iibted but that he woula simply pour out his wealth in order to find kh She would also ask herself = Cecil would do. Would he part in the search, or, had he altonds gone back to his Scottish castle, and practically forgotten her existence? She greatly feared that that would were any signs of that dreaded boat.| Prove the case. For all that, she All that night George was delir-| ¥@8 conscious that her one great In- fous. The following morning, s|centive in desiring to return. was that she might meet Cecil and get the truth from hls own Hps. Not Hoo then could she be satisfied one way or the other. dt waa a tremendous relief to Molly when George began to be ac- tually and definitely on the mend. dood “ WIER ROYAL YEAST CAKES He was still very weak, “but the find no paral os gn in maine Contes. wound was healing satisfactoriiy. ppy? Nursing him was proving a terrible | about the idea? Bhe Se very y font. -strain on Molly, howey He never | of George. e n delightful liked her ont of his aight for five} companion, with as wholesome a minutes Indeed, in his utter/mind as any man that ever lived. re- physteal weakness, all his strength mind seemed to have gone. ife toaethas ha endurable for Molly only because he had been will- ing to recognize that she belonged. wholly to Lord Belden. But now it was as though he demanded and claimed her for himself. Possibly there was nothing to be alarmed about in his anpeanink demands upon her. She must hold his aaa Pat at hia bedside, lay her cool hand on his aching brow, and if she went away for half an hour he would greet her petulantly. And Molly was afrald, — of what the end might be. At sent er was nothing for it but to yield, to give hind to all those petty demands of “Are oll es I’m getting well?" he seked "beta e day. She was sitting with his hand in hers, while with the other she sur- reptitiously tazped the pages of a wireless tex She gently sanecesa his hand be- fore repjying. don’t know what I should have done if you had been taken from " she sald comfortingly. His answer was a satisfied sigh. He closed his eyes for a few mom- o i=] - s. “If God were to take you from me,” he said, then, "I should simply. have to follow. go stark, starin I simply can't live without you now. I should never have another mom- ent’s happiness in all my Iffe."’ Molly sat there es though turned to stone. What must she do? His condition was still most critical, and she feared, were she to attempt to establish, point-blank, the fact that she could never marry him, since she loved another man, that might have a severe relapse. No, it was not wise to say anything to upset him just now, She must let him get well and then she must be ‘brave enough to enfore once again the eld conditions—that they two should (be just brother and sister, and nothing more. “I Uke to think that you couldn't J @ go on Living without me,” he said then. “Yeu couldn’: dear, could ou?” Molly shuddered at the bare |. though “Tt would be impossible to go on living.” she said. “I should be In constant terror, terror ha might happen, of the awful lonelH- ness, Besides, those half-breeds might come back again. No, I don't think I could possibly survive." Once again George heaved a gratified sigh. hen he seemed to be as suddenly perturbed once more. “But it's not only because of the loneliness and danger? You would miss me for myselt?” he pleaded. “Say you would, Molly dear." Again Molly pressed the hand that lay In hers, “Why, of course I should miss you, George! Miss you very much!" she sald. “You know that, without me telling you." “Molly dear, suppose we had to forever—what live here for years, then?" e hope to get away quite "he sald firmly. till it's on the cards that we shan't,” he sald. “What then? What about you and me? “But we shell certainly be rl cued soon,’ she persisted. ‘“‘We'r going to get the wireless right. Oh, we must get away before long. Be- sides, if we didn’ t. we should starve. You know we're not so far from the end of our provisions now." George shook his head slowly. “Tf we had to we should make do with sea bird's eggs and fish," he said. “And we should be sure to find some edible vegetation. Then, don't forget that I've planted all those potato eyes and most of them And those to- mato seeds ara taking root. Oh, we should manage to scrape along somehow, never fear. “T can't bear sd think of it,” said Molly, swith a shudder. That shudder ‘ssanned to oO right iurouet her, and commuulcate it- self through her hand to him, yi a don’t soon, “Ss “Molly,” he pleaded, hate me like that, surely?” “T don’t hate you at all, -lear,"’ she sald compunctionely. “Yon know I don’t. ow, just you reat quietly and make up your mind to get well. That's the first step, any- how. No, matter what happens, I must have you well. I'couldn’t bear for wi to happen to you. k og eorge was only half satisfled. He looked up into her face for some tim Molly dear, I wonder if you'd kiss me,” he sald at last. "I'd leave the future, I'd leave everything, if only you'd give me just one kiss,” Molly hesitated for q@ moment or two. ‘Then ehe fell to her knees at his side, put her arm lovingly round his neck and kissed him. Then she pressed her cheek against his. “Poor old George!" she said. “TI wish I could make you more happy!" As she rose from her knees she faw that his eyes were closed. O of utmost-sat- was rs one It made the tears ane to ner eyes. pone: felt anery with Why aire re George her Stont Would es shady her @#o very much? Bes! @ | kissing him several times. tieult cf those his sui ioe Kissed me: last?" he press- } intenaée that he had | ed . she got back to olvi-|- she found that Why could “ae not let eee go on as they were, try to happiness here and now? Could ht Moreover, George was as eager: to get away from the island as she was, except for this one thing, his CNR 7 fear that when she got away he would lose her forever. ~Oh, !f only she could fight out her battle, make up her mind! Surely, then, + must go well! She was fully aware that he had George: only. to. say—to eorga, dear, I'll marry you the moment we get back to civilization,” and e would move heaven and earth to en- sure their-rescue. She knew George and what a tremendous will to achieve was his. ourse, he would get that wireless right. Fall- ing this, he could construct a boat from timbers torn from the yacht and canvas sheets, as, indeed, he had talked of doing—only talked! Still, she knew that never give that promise. meant remaining on the island to the day of her death, she must walt until she had heard from Cecil's Ups, elther her death sentence, or those wonderful words which would lift her into heaven. CHAPTER XI 8 O. 8, It was amazing to Molly how rap- idly George made headway, from the moment of that kiss. By the end wholly recovered. - During that fort- night he had wheedied Molly into It was a relief, then, to hear that he was up and abont, and there was no longer any need for her to nurse him, It was one thing to yield to a queru- lous patient's request for a kisa, as one bent over his head, but a very different thing for him to expect her be kiss him once was about gain. Nevertheless, Molly realized that {t woul k for her to keep their relations precisely as she Intended them t More than ever, Molly's: one iden was ud Ra ag wireless set working proper ar, her studies had pai oh her nothing, and at last she summoned up her courage to urge Te Tge once more to get to work on the t. “Fou! re quite sure it's not because yen wish to get away trom me?" he gnid teasingly. That was a great roller to-Mous, in ane sense, for it showed he was feeling more at ease with regard to her, And yet, was that a direct re- kisses? She asked herself In some alarm Was it that he now felt more sure of her? “Don't be silly, George!"' she crled,’ forcing a laugh: “I'm sure you're as anxious to get back to ga as ever Tam. Now, ad- ti “Oh, I'm eager enough to get back to civilization,” he sald, “providing I can take you w 8." “Oh, won't It be dolightfot to be back again!" she cried, once more evading the iraue. Let's swim out to suggested. “P2) see If I can't get that old wireless working. After all, it was pretty nearly right w when I left off.” “Good!” erled Molly. But she decided that it. would be best for him to go on the raft fcr the pres- nt, : Molly was alarmed at the change in George. He seemed so sure of himself. sure of her, too. edly she caught him’ regarding her with a smile of entire satisfaction, as though he no longer had anxiety as to her accepting him In the end. Apparently, however, he had made up his mind not to force the pace, but let things develop nat- urally. spent the whole of the Gey bo work on the wireless set, and w he was done at Iast, he told her ‘cat he hoped tomorrow to be successful tn picking up messages and under- take the more on task of get- ting a message thro pileture—of you and me having to remain on the island for ever and ever—doesn't look Hke coming true after all," she laughed. “I don’t think that necessary any longer.” he said. “In any case, even without “the wireless, we might expect a vessel to call hore any day. These archipelagoes are very popu- jar holiday resorts with us Ameri- canes, and this particular fsland is just the place where a picnic party might be expected to lan ‘ After supper they strolled up and down the Iittle strip beach, enjoying the wonderful evening scents, and watching the phospher- escent water rippling and changing in the moonlight. “y sha ll often think of this lovely place," said Molly, “when we are ne." “So shall 1," he said. “And, who knows, we may co back to it, just for a holiday some y."" That alarmed Molly. He seemed to take It for granted that they would spend thelr future together. “Do you know when !t was that I began to get better?" he said then. “Tt was from the moment ones you gave me that kiss, little wir Molly - felt mon-pliuss ‘She oe mot think of gapehing to aay. dido you know how long it is Molly tried to laugh that off. “Tt's just id ? sisted. ‘It was the last day I waa in bed, yon remember? ‘Molly dear, now aren't you going to 2 ¢ dd For a moment Molly fearly =~ she drew tru of another fortnight he had almost be | “As fo -“You mean—?” he began — that, though -"“I mean, George, I'm' found enough of es I don't want to kiss you,” she sa firmly. “Please don't ask me. “What's the harm in a kiss?" he “Beales, o. wie you're n realize, m dear,” he added with . little acces- sion of confidence. 4 Molly sighed. “George, you do make things 4 difficult!’ she said, “Oh, why can’t you be content with things as they are?” “You're not fair, Molly,"’ he cried angrily. “You expect a man be flesh and like marble, instead of blood.” “No, George,” she said earnestly. “T axpect you to be you. ou've al- war boy a man of honor, a man to “Ty tg “always been a fool,” he growled. “What might you mean by that?" sald Molly, with a touch of anger. “What mean i said George eapkatiealty, “you'r fond of e as ever you will a of any man. The fact is, I could make you love me—if only Iwould bring myself to do it. Oh, you'd be happy enough with me, once ycu were mine and settied down to it, Yon know you wou me. ,pon't we, get on perfectly as it “Oh ‘George, I wish you wouldn’ t" protested Molly. “I can't ear It, “Look voli Molly," he ania roughly. “I've had enough of this. You've just got to marry me. Never mind anything else. All this eget Lerd Belden ls bunkum. Why, hardly knew one another, and, die: ‘ng from all evidence, he never cared two straws for you, You must admit that. Come, Molly, don't be a foo! and waste your life, waiting for—nathing at all.” Mol turned aw “ft wort listen, Genres! I won't hear any more!" .she protested, starting towards the ehac George caught her by the wrist and held her. “You'll listen to every word ” insisted. Island. We've now, and we've got on sectectly ¢ to- gether We're ideal companions. Can't you see that, dear? a vou waiting for? What are you worrying about? You know I hy make you happy. I kno I -won't have you seating your lite! For what? Just waiting, waiting, ont!l you've confirmed the fact that Lord Belden was éut for a marriage of convenience.” “But you can’t be sure of that,” erled Molly piteously. “On, I won't believe ftir’ . “That's enough of all that, growled George. ““Look here! I've been a weak fool tong enough. I'm going to stop all that. You're the girl I want, the girl I mean to take. What's to prevent me? The fact is, you and I are here alone, with no law but that of primitive nature. th and the stronger to take you if I d enough of all You don't know your own mind. ‘Well, I’m going to ake it up for you. Molly, do you hear me? You're going to be my wife.”" Molly was amazed at the n George. She had never him at all like. this before. He seemed to be in a frenzy, seemed to have repurnee to the primitive, in- as though he h eettaniy realised that if he might not get her by consent, at least he could by force. It was as though he had suddenly realized that force could settle the matter for them nt this artificiality. change known both. “Come mony! What do you say?” he demanded Molly told. herself that this was oceasion for subtlety. This reckless, vathless moo ~ of George's would pass. It mu “I'll give oe my answer the mom- ent — are in touch with civilization aga‘n.” Gesrgt seized ‘her roughly round the shoulders, and held her so that her face was close to his. don’t want our an swer,”’ he erled frenaledly. “But, listen. Give me your promise, and that will be enou “My prom! "ee! "" gasped ONY, ai most mesmerised by ‘those peiling eyes so close to her ava. “Yes, your promise “Very well, George,” last. “I—promlis At that Boorse: strained her close and kissed her. Molly closed her She felt that she was going to ¢woon away. @ done she asked herself, give she eaald at orde ; Ruefully she reminded herself that }.miles it mer a is never right under any , Sanaa stances to do wro But then, What ante oould —t ave done? At} the moment George been beside himeelf, almost tseng with desire to make her his for good and all. - get that wireless working be- fore: ifenty four hours are gone,” ‘ he mise ines with eager enth feel paths ea.” Then. ie “she “No George dear,"" she sald Bare that!" — “I don't want to kiss you. I only| Molly hardly slept that night. She kissed you then because you were) was considering that promise. Could ill and eo unhappy.” ei = cal ~ a gi promi, <a te George drew back sharply... It} ed hersel! Le he oe : trom’ her In @ mt of great aie though she had struck him stress, Could stith a _ prom considered binding Legally, yes, but morally, no: George had bad no right to exact thet promise. But, more than all this, she dreaded the future, dreaded tomorrow, and all the difficult days that would follow. True to his promise George com- leted his work on the wireless set the following day. three hours’ wearisome ns called loudly to Molly to come at 2. “What! Have you got through?” she cried engerly. For answer he siroply handed her a pair of ear-phones, even as she was fitting them, ane could hear the strains ofa band. “T picked. that up by accident,” he sald. “It might be anywhere— Havapa, or even New York: You see, I hardly know my bearings yet.’ Molly clasped her hands as she “Oh, isn't wireless wonderful!" she cried. George rose and looked at her, then atrodk his head dublously. “How tremendously you're want- ing to be free, little bird of para- dise!"" he sald. ‘Thank God It Is | who is to give you your freedom!” he added fervently. Molly turned and looked at him. Her freedom! George was a dear, but it could never be freedom—lifs personality, but her heart belonged to Cecil. It would always belong to Cec]. George might rouse her, in a SEY but he never would have her hea That would always belong to Gectl—if, indeed, ft had not died long ago! isi might it be possible, at the ee a. us to be taken off?" e knowledge that her eicane Tatght ha any day was rather Kee about George? That lay heavily on her conscletice, *inde from ‘ery first moment of siv- ing: it. “I shall have to transmit our message in Morse, of course," he said. “It might be picked up by éome Unit ed States warship, or even the Customs of a place like Havana. But, there's mo reason why it should more than a or 80 ‘before Seg comes Jooking for us." can rey 6 grateful enough to you for utting it right!" cried Molly, slipping her hand through h’s arm and giving {t a h ug. “Molly Gear,” he pleaded, “rive me just one kiss before I get back to work again.” And re she could attempt to prevent it he had folded ner in his arms and = was kissing At baste is released her, and laughed softly. “I think I know paemey who is just as keen as ever I aim,” he “fy knew it would come, if vou said would only let yourself. You and I, ttle girl, have been one from : beginning of time. 0) possibly have been together all the:- weeks and not preccd come ‘to it aces rie eae y it phi hiva‘ly After all, she had r a marry him. Surely she should no’ be surprised Dr upset at his want- "he following e follow Geor icked nd up several Mors Se S eee Troe ves sels passing omaha near. It wa- all very thrilling, though the mv- sages wére & more |:- teresting th weather records “And now, try to A rag td KS Aw : @ George,” “What wil [om iittle iy sive | he George if he sop? éhe tells hin asked Goites a y. Molly was ‘aware that the corr answer was: “A Kiss.” But she ': ee like running away to th “Well ate if the ttle girl is + shy,” sald George, “George « . ner to aie his- ‘reward!’ nd once again-he took her In \ - arms atid kissed her. d ‘bless ) hap wor tada Believe me, I should be Be tal content to stay on this island {\°- ever, along with you—neyer mii returning to civilization! If y : ed ,me, I say it's rather play« er days before t 7 translated A sultable = Orn ‘So m sage.intO Morse, and a copy of th reposed on the tabla in front f eaenee in large black dots) anit “Molly felt a th Bees Me Ey rit fo through hs message “BOF ‘oa. exhort ase as ped -out: ked 1, my dear, ‘T'm sure you} w you Bd a Ustened to that foolish jazz music. . e wit True, she might bedi happy with him, In a way. H's was essentially an attractive, magnetic e = 4 a s