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The DEVIL'S MANTLE hi i | Ex ] i ef] H Fe g 2 F 2 z iE : ; ; . ; 4 ¥ g Blake as the murderer of his friend, Tom Murchison. When Blake comes to him- self it is on a lonely island, where he has been nursed Josephus Mumm on board his vessel, the Break o' mutinies, Captain Murmmm and Peter manage to subdue the crew, but ill-for- tune still stalks the Break o' Dawn. In a thick fog she is rammed by the Isis, the luxurious yacht owned by Mr. Hum, Garth--and sinks with the entire native crew. Peter rescues Captain Mumm and both are taken aboard the - Isis. There Peter meets the girl of his dreams--the girl he had seen two years ago in a London theatre. ' In recount. ing his story, Captain Mumm heroically guards Peter's iden. tity and introduces him as "Alec Dunn." A strong, mu. tual friendship springs up be. tween Marlon Garth and Pet. er, so that Blake yields to the temptation to retain his as. sumed mame, "The Devil's Mantle" is still upon Peter however. for the mext mern. ning he is rudely awakened and accused of the brutal murder of Jaffray. Garth's private secretary, His real identity is disclosed and he stands before the woman he loves a confessed lar--and accused of a second murder! Through Rand's expert ques- tioning, the coil of circum. stantial evidence tightens an. mercifully aboht Peter Blake, Locked in an improvised -pri- son, Peter is horrified to see that the Isis has been lured by strategy to a burning vessel, and then boarded by a hoarde of native pirates, A woman's scream reaches his cell, Pirates! Again and again Peter flung himself upon the door, striving with all his strength and weight to. #mash it with his shoulders, us ing himself as a human battering ram, beating at the panels until his fists were raw and bleeding, and until from sheer exhaustion, his breath coming in great gasps, he hung swaying upon his feet, grasp- ing dt the edge of his bunk for support, . As well have pitted himself against a stone wall! There were no longer any shots from above--just a hubbub of shouts and cries and wild shrieks of laughter; but these reached him now in merely a subconscious way. Only one cry, a cry in a woman's voice, a cry that had been uttered very long ago, echoed and re-echo. ed in his ears--and he was still here, penned up, caged, impotent. Strange that some of those ae. vils running amuck had not heard him battering at the door--it must be because they were making so much noise themselves, and because the cabin was down below decks. Anyway, he must take the risk again, for there was another way of attacking it! He started to tear at the plank- ing that made the side of his bunk. If he could break down the door, Better that he should be heard and take his chance with whoever came than remain here and bury his head in his arms, a beaten thing! It was Marion's cry heard, Marion's! A Helping Hand The »sweat stood out in great beads on Peter's forehead; his muscles cracked, as, with feet brac- ed against the wall, he tugged at the bunk planking, It began to give with sharp, protesting creaks. He pulled upon it with all his ee he had For Better Values DIAMONDS Burns' Jewelry Store 233% Simcoe 8, Phone 389 Cash or Terms 3 EYESIGHT SPECIALIST Uncorrected refractive errors take toll of your health and vital. ity. Have your eyes corrected now. 1516 ~PHON" -- 16 Disney Block, Opposite Post Office a Felt Bros. The LEADING JEWELERS Established 1886 12 Simcoe St. South "Wait," interrupted Peter tersely. THE OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1928 By Frank L. Packard ® Copyright by Public Ledger "Marion -- Miss Garth-- I heard her--" might, and, with a low, exultant cry, freed one end. The rest was easy now, He tore the other end loose, paused for an instant to re- gdin his breath--and 'then, wih the plank poised for its drive against the door panels, he stood suddenly still, ; "Peter!" It came in a low, vi- brant whisper fromr outside the door, "I've got a bar here, Peter, my lad. Stand. by to give me a hand. I'm going to force the door," It was the little red-haired skip- per's voice, "Right!" said Peter hoarsely-- and flung the plank down on the bunk. It was perhaps half a minute, no more, and yet to Peter it seem- ed a space of time immeasurable, as he listened and waited, while the little red-haired skipper drove his bar in between the door jamb and the edge of the door, and pried at the lock." And then with a snap the lock gave way, and the door stood open, It was dark, There was no light in the alleyway, Peter could bare- ly make out the other's form, A revolver was thrust into his hand, "Take it, my lad!"- whispered the little skipper hurrjedly, - *T fancy the only thing left is a bit of a fight before they get us. I thought you'd rather go out that way, son, Their trick worked, all right! There ain't been any blood spilled so far, hecause they had us cold before anybody realized what was up; and none of us was armed, of course; but they've got all the crew under hatch for'ard now, I suppose they'll scuttle the ship when they get through loot- ing, on the basis of dead men tell no tales, They had the rest of us herded on the deck near the saloon entrance when they warped their hell's craft alongside, and » "Wait!" interrupted Peter teuse- ly. "Marion--Miss Garth--I heard her--"' "I'm coming to that--that's how I got here," broke in the little skipper gruffly, "We were all standing together; Stone, and some of the officers, Rand, Garth and Miss Garth, you understand?-- the swine were packed around us four or five thick--Malays, most ot 'en, though there was a smatter- ing of black islanders among 'em, too--then a, tall fellow, dressed like a European, but with the face of a devil, broke through the cir- cle and shouted out some kind of an order, And four or five of em grabbed Miss Garth, and carried her off to the brig alongside. Mr. Garth fought like a tiger, and so did the rest--except me. I didn't, Peter, because it wasn't any good, and there wasn't a hope. They were ten to one, and I was think- ing of something else. I'd lost my own revolver, of course, when we go} pitched into ' the water from the Break O"Dawn; but yes- terday when I was in Mr. Garth's room talking to him, I saw a brace of 'em in the drawer of one of the stands that he'd opened in looking for some papers, and so, 'Damme,' says I to myself, 'mabbe here's a chance for Peter and me to get a few of these hellions before we all go out!' "And then, in the melee, T step- ped back through the saloon en- trance without being noticed, and ran to Mr. Garth's stateroom for the revolvers; then I dived down below, got a steel bar fromr the engineroom to use on this door, and--" *'You say," said Peter, in a flat, monotonous voice, "that they've got Marjon--Miss Garth--on board that brig out there? Nothing else matters, does fit?" The little skipper made a sud- den choking sound. "Yes, I know!" he said thickly. "I know what you mean, Peter. Yes, they've got her aboard there." "Then," said Peter, "I'm going aboard there, 100." There was an finstant's silence, The little red-haired man's hand crept to Peter's shoulder. "What good could you do, Peter, my lad, even if you managed to get aboard. Could you stand off a hundred of 'em?" "There's No Other Way" Peter thrust forward the revol- ver in his hand. : "If it came to the worst, I could give her this," h esaid. Then his voice broke queerly. "Damn it, don't you understand! She's a white woman!" Again there was an iostant's silence, "Aye," said Captain Josephus Mumm in an unsteady voice, 'you could give her that--there's a chance in a thousand that you could; or, if you had to, Peter, you--you could do it for her your- self at the last--she'd thank you for that, too. And so we'll make a try, my lad." "No!" said Peter, sharply, "Not you!* There wouldn't be a chance then, Those devils know nothing about me; but they've seen you and know you're aboard and the min- ute they mriss you they'll start scouting for you----they've probe ably started now, And if they did- not find you on board here, they'd search their own vessel--and that would be the end of it, Go back to the others--and give me my chance, I don't think they'll scut- tle the Isis, but if that's their in tention, then the end would be the same whether or not you and I fought them for a few minutes in some corner while our cart- ridges lasted. Go back to the others, and don't use that gun of yours, for it would only mean reprisals on their part, after all, when they- 've got all they want in the shape of Joot, they intend to let the Isis go." "Peter," said the little skipper, and stumbled for his words, 'it's like letting you go to your death alone, but it's logie, Peter, and you're right, and--"' "There's no other way," said Peter simply, "and there's no time to lose," He caught the other's hand and wrung it hard--and the next instant, brushing by the lit- tle red-haired man, he was racing down the alleyway in the dark- ness, "Peter!" Action! Peter was merely subcon- sciously aware that back some- where behind him the little man out of a full heart, had called his name, He ran on swiftly, There should be a companionway here somewhere, and a door ' above, opening on the Isis' flush after deck. Yes, here it was! He flung himself the stairway and reached the door, which he found to be open. And now he halted to peer out Dut Don't let it go until it develops intosomething much more serious. 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There did not seem to he any one in the immediate vieinity--shouts, jeering yells, a pandemonium of noise dinned at his ears, but it all came from the deck above, and from forward and amidships of the Isis--the cabins, the saloon and the lounge were obviously * the prime attraction, since they held the promise of the richest rewards for the looters! For a second more, Peter held there motionless--to get his bearings now, to note the spars and rigging of the brig loom. ing up over the Isis' hull in spidery and grotesque tracery against the night--and then he darted across the deck and gained the rall, He crouched there for a moment. No one, so far, had seen him. He raised himself up, and looked over the rail, As he had thought, the brig's deck and the flush after- deck of the Isis were almost level --nothing separated themy but the bulwarks of the one and the rail of the other, The vessels were ly- ing bow to stern, and a great black patch on the brig's deck, almost opposite him and near the foremast caught his eye. This puzzled him for an instant; then he understood. It was an open hatch, He could distinguish a few men here and there on the brig's deck--but the nearest was a single figure with back turned and a good fifty or sixty feet away. The chances were at least even that he would not be seen in the darkness--and the chances were not 'likely to be better! Without a sound, his movements as qulet and agile as a cat's. Peter work- ed his way over the rail and bul- warks, and landed on the brig's deck. And then for an instant he held his breath, From somewhere toward the brig's stern an order was bellowed out, and every man that he had previously noted on the deck, it seemed, began to move forward in his direction. He had not been seen--he was sure of that--but in an other minute, they would he around him, the open hateh, then! If he could reach that? To drop on the deck and crawl was to court observation; to was his one chance of being acrepted, for just a second or two svat he neeuwu, as one of themselves. It was only a few feet, but Pe- ter's lips were set and hard as he covered the short distance; and then, gaining his objective, and with swift. glance around to as- sure Nimegelf in so far as he could that he was still unobserved, he lowered himself silently over the edge of the hatch. They were very close now--evidently coming here to the hatch itself for some pur- pose. He could hear them chat- tering one to another. He hung for an instant to the hatch comib- in air, he jet himself drop. (To Be Continued) DISTILLERS SETTLE - GOVERNMENT CLAIM Ottawa, May Il--Hon. William D. Fuler, Minister of National Revenue stated tonight that Gooderham & Worts, distillers, Toronto, are making settlement in full of the Department of National Revenue claim for arrears of sales tax. The amount involved is some $675,000, and there will be no appeal from the judgment secured by the department sogie weeks ago. Al- though they have fost the case, the campapy have accepted the verdict in a far and businesslike way, Mr, Euler pt, EE A considerable mumber of the brewers have already made scttle- m and a sumber of others are pe: Total amount of the de- partons claims against the brewers and distillers, for which writs have been issued, is $5000,000. 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