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f quietly. Ine USHAWA DAILY HIMES, SATURDAY, MAY 19, -- The L LVIL'S MANTLE: Peter aid not answer vo TA a mo- ment--the blood seemed to be pounding-suddenly as'rnongh with hammdn vg at Wie ears, He | ed forward again and agal og hand closed with a crushiig grip on the other's arm. "af uw. can do. that, and will," he sald his, voice strained and tense, there. could be no greater proof." "It ig well," sald Aghar Pind "We will go, then, sa- aib; and go quickly while Tajal AN ls still at meat. Keep: close to me, sahib, and follow." ~Aghar Pind moved away in the darkness, making for the after nd of the hold, Peter could just make out the other's form as, in turn, he scrambled and crawled sver the cargo behind the man. And then presently he found him- self in an open space with what was presumably a bulk-head in front of him again. 'Sahib," whispered Aghar Pind, "this place 18 kept free for the petrol and oil for the engine. Be careful, sahib, and bend low, We go into the engine-room, and the opening is not high" Peter heard again the eveaklics sound that he had heara when the hold was first invaded--obviously now from the opening of a door of some sort--and, guided by touch of Aghar Pind's hand upon his arm, he took a few steps forward. ThemAghar Pind halted once more. "Wait, sahib,"" whispered Ag- har Pind again "It 1s safter that the sahib should see now for a moment for if he stumbled or fell into anything in here he might be heard,"' There wae .the crackle of a match---and for an instant Reter blinked at even the tiny flame in the sudden transition from utter blackness And then swiftly ®he grasped his surroundings, The brig was equipped with an auxil- lary engine, of course, He found himself standing beside a large and powerful motor, 'The place itself, however, was small, confin- ed, law, ceilinged ,-- little more than a cubby-hole, Opposite where he stood a narrow compan- fonway led upward. He glanced quickly then at his companion, but Aghar Pind had his back turned and he could not see the other's face, As the match went out, 'Aghar Pind was pointing along the shaft of the motor to where it disappeared through a little open: ing at the aftew end of the engine room. "We go that way, sahib," sald Aghar Pind. "There 'are litt doors rhat cpen so that the oiling and other things that I do not understand may be done at such times as are necessary: but it 12 very small, and very marrow, ana the sahib must walk with his back bent double. Does the sa- hib understand?" "lI understand," tersely." "Go on!" It wag even & little narrower, a little lower, than Aghar Pind had intimated. Petér found himself practically compelled to crawl up- on his hands and knees, He was in what technically, on board = steamship, he knew, was desig- nated as the "tunnel." Above his head was obviously the flooring of the cabins; and when, two or three yards along, Aghar Pind again stopped he knew that he must be at the extreme stern end of the brig, "Sahib," said Aghar Pind, "there is a trapdoor mnere that opens into one of the two cabins of which I told the sahib, Only Tajal All and I, Aghar Pind, his servant, of all en board, know of this for Tajal Ali had it made se- cretly so that there would be a way out that no ene should know. If the sahib is ready I will open it now." Peter's said Peter revolver was in his ~hand. "Just a minute, he said harshly, 'If you are cap- able of betraying your master who trusted you, you are quite capable of betraying me! You understand me?" Aghar Pind,» "Sahib," replied Aghar Pind imperturbably, "what I do now, I do neither for the love of the sa- hih, nor for the love of Miss Sa- hih. When I have proved my faith to the sahib, IT will make all clear to him, Is it the sahib's wish that we go on?" "Carry on!" said Peter gruffly. "But""--he reached out suddenly and touched the other with the muzzle of his revolver--"you will go first, Afhat Pind!' Ayhar Pind laughed softly, "The Sahib forgets that I knew he had the revolver which waa giv. en to him py the red-hatred man," he said, -- and, reaching upward, there suddenly appeared an opens « By Frank L. Packard (Eby by 'Public Ledger) ing above him through. 'which &l faint light now came Mtering dow into the "tupnel. » Following Aghar Pind, he. pulls 'ed himself up through the apens ing, which, as Aghar «Pind had' said, was a small trapacor, and found himself standing In a cabs) in that was luxuriously furnished in a barbaric sort of way, He glanced quickly around "him. TA divan piled high with milti-eolor~ «l cushions evidently was in lieu of bed or bunk; tne walls and floor were covered with rich and heavy Oriental rugs of exquisite texture and from the centre of the ceiling there swung a magni ficent bronze lamp of antique de- sign. There were two doors; one that opened on the main cabin, it was apparoat, for, from the other side, there came the sound of voices, laughter, the. clatter of dishes; the other door, from fits postion just opposite where he stood, obviously led into an aa- joining cabin, Aghar Pind stepped silently across the cabin, anda, taking a key from his pocket, noiselessly unlocked this second door, "Sahib," he said, "the way is open. 'fhe Miss Sahib is In there. INut come back swiftly if 1 call. Tajal Ali's custom is to spemd much time at his meat, but tonight it may not be so, It is in the mind of Tajal Ali that I, Ag- har Pind have all this time been inside here to guard the Miss Sa- hib and that I stay here until Ta- jal Ali returns, Does the sahib understand?" Tor the first time Peter saw the other in the light, and for a mo- ment he studied the man, Aghar Pind was tall, muscular, very thin of face, and the face it- self was unemotional -- wunread- able. His skin was light brown in color, but seemed, too, to pos- sess a distinetly yellowish tinge, which, with the narrow eyes, sug- gested the * probability that the man had a trace of Chinese blood in him, But there was nothing distinctive about Aghar Pind; he was merely; he was merely one of A swarm from a mongrel breed that were to be found from the coast of China to the confines of of the Malay Archipelago. A study of the man's face neither imbued faith nor allayed distrust, Peter frowned. 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This cab- in, too, was lighted and furnished like the other; and a figure stood there--a slim figure in waite, a girl with shoulders that drooped as though under some unendur- able weight, as, with back turnea, she stood across the cabin from him, her face to the porthole staring out into the darknes, Hou adh Peter slipped the revolver he was still holding into his pocket; and then he closed the door quietly behind him, Involuntarily,, unconsefous ot the act, he stretched out his arms ta her. "Marion!" he said hoarsely, Face To Face A low, quick, startled ery answered him as she swung swiftly around: and Peter saw the blue eyes grow wide, a sudden whiteness come into her face----and saw her shrink back against the cabin wall, "Marion!" he said again, "Thank God!" She was still pressed back against the cabin wall--as though she would retreat yet farther if she coyld, "You--you here!" she said in a dull monotone. "So you have come into your own!" He had fargotten--forgotten for the moment everything except that he had reached her, He swung his hand now across his eyes and drew Lack as though he had been struck a blow. She had not left him long in his forgetfulness, It brought him bitter hurt--an insufferable pain, He waa Peter Blake, alias Alec Dunn---the murderer. That was what she had just said, "Because"--he found his volce with an effort--"I am on hoard this ship with its thieving, cut- throat crew--amongst wretches of my own stamp?" "And evidently of some conse- quence amongst them, since you are free to enter this cabin--where no one else, so far, has come," she added quickly, *I--I did not know whom to expect, but--hut not you, If there is anything of decency left in you, anything of manhood, please go!" She was standing very straight now, her head back, her 'hands 'ghtly closed at her sides, The "it fell upon the golden heauty of ¢v hair, the full, white throat, the allf-parted lips, the glory of her-- nd the misery in her eyes. And 'eler caught his breath--and a vild, mad yearning came--and a ierce, pascionate refusal to endure the condemnation in her voice and words, "No; 1 will not go!" His voice was low, uneven, "Not yet! 1t is not true, and--"" "Any more true, I suppose," she interrupted dully, than that a few days ago you were also Alec Dunn." He feit the color flush his face. "I was Alec Dunn that night" he said fiercely, "for the same reason that, tonight, I am here." She starcd at him uncompre- hendingly. "I do not understand what yeu mean." Peter took a step toward her, His heart was pounding, his voice al- most out of control, "Because of you!" he said. "Be- cause I---I loye you, Because you are all my world. Because you have I. er been out of my life since that night in London two years ago." A moment more she started at hand behind her, as though seek- irg some. means of escape, and shrank away along the cabin wall apd stumbled against the edge of the divan, which wis the counter- part of the one in the other cabin, and, with a little cry recovered herself, And then suddenly the blue eyes were flashing, and she drew herself erect, "You are a coward!" she eried "And a greater brute than these uncivilized beasts, vile as they are, who are aboard here! They, at least, have le." me alone." "While I," said Peter hoarsely, "have come to take advantage of your helplessness to force my love upon you! That is what you mean. Well, you are wrong! What I have told you is the truth, and you shall hear it again, T said I was Alec Dunn because of you because I thought that night you, too, re- membered, and that perhaps in the days ahead you, too, might come to care--it meant every chance for happiness there was in life for me, and that chance would have been shattered, and utterly destroyed at the outset if I bad said my name was Peter Blake." "And, of course," she said mono- tonously, "it also , prevented your immediate arrest--but it cost poor Jaffray his life." Peter's face was 'bloodless. "You shall mot say that!" hg said sternly. "I know no more of Jaffray's death than you do; I do not know any more than you do who killed your Daddy Tom, as I believe - you called Murchison. I took the one chance I had to win you by remaining free and estab- lishing my innocence if I could, and i--* "You said all this the other day." she broke in wearily. "Is it neces- sary to repeat it? I already under- stand what you mean by saying him--then she groped out with one | that I have to fear. I understand that now." "You do not understand!" he an~ gwered--and fought to keep his voice 'under comtrol. "You imply that I was either in league with them or at some time was either one of them or had had dealings 'with them--that, 18 any case, for whatever reason it might be, they obeyed my orders like a flogk of sheep when 'they attacked the Isis. A bit far-fetched, isn't it?" She 'drew hér 'hands again and again across her eyes, "How could you get here then, and have the freedom of this ship, ag you obviously have," she asked numbly, "if you were not one of them?" "There is only one man, the brought me to this cabin and who chief's servant, the: man who is now waiting in there' --Peter jerked his head toward the door through which he had entered-- V¥who knows I am aboard here. He found me in the hold, where I had to make a jump for it to escape being seen when I got away from the Isis, He brought me here by way of a trap door that opens in tha flooring of that other cabin there--a sort of back-door exit, 1 take it, that the leader, whom he calls Tajal All, keeps up his sleeve in event of trouble. There is some quid pro quo attached to his ser- vices, I have no doubt, but I 'do not know what it is, Anyway, I am here." "Because"--she was looking at him steadily now--"I think you said because I was here? Because, in some way, You knew I was here?" "Yes!" he said tensely. "And having got on board here" --her voice was coming coldly now, like trickling drop~ of ice water-- "because I was here--what did you expect to do for me against a ship's crew?" "It was enough that you were here in the hands of these devils," Peter answered passionately, 'i didn't know what I could do, I I came." ' "Yes; I see you did," she said in the same cold tones as before; "but, even if your story were true --I mean that part of it in which you deny collusion with these men ---T1 am still afraid your motive might not he so purely unselfish as you claim, Even to hide in the hold of this vessel with all its admitted discomforts might very naturally appeal to you as the less'r of two evils--when the other was a return to Sydney, and--and what you had to face there," "You don't believe me!' he cried out, "You---you won't let yourself believe!" Peter Still Wears "The Devil's Mantle" Peter took another step forward. His lips were white, ashen, She turned her head away, "No; T am afraid I don't," she sald evenly. "To he found in the hold of this ship by a man who would naturally at once hand you over to his companjons, if, as you claim, there was, nothing between you and those on board here, but who, instead, immediately hecomes your friend, and by some secret method brings you at once to this cabin, 1s a little difficult to be- lieve," "Yes," sald Peter bitterly, "the word of a man who murdered your godfather and then butchered yonr father's secretary is hard to believe --no matter what he says. But"-- he was close to her now, his face stern and set, and his hands were reached out to grasp her--'I am not through yet, and--" She fought him off madly, furl- CARETAKER Alexandra Park for the p of praia of Alexandra Park wilt be received by the undersigned un- til five o'clock p.m., Wednesday, May 23rd. State experience and . For information F, L. Henry, 231 King F. E. HARE Sec'y. 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(To be continued) h ' SUMMER SERVICE ACR The scheduled summer service of the Ontario Car Ferry steamers across Lake Ontario, between Co- bourg, Ont., and Genesee Dock (City of Rochester) N.Y., will com- mence Saturday, May 26th, steam- er leaving Cobourg 8.15 pam, Eastern Standard Time, every Sune day Monday, Thursday and Satur. inclusive, and daily commencing June 30th, The steamer will ar- rive Genesee Dock 8.00 p.nr. and connecting train via B.R.&P Ry. will arrive Rochester City 8.30 p. m, Northbound the steamer will leave Geneseé¢ Dock © 8.35 a.m. (connecting train leaving Roches- ter 8.00 a.m.) and arrive Cobourg 1.35 p.m., same days and dates as indicated above. Canadian National train services to and from Cobourg make excel. lent connection with these steam- ers, providing convenient service to and from Rochester and Central New York State points. 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