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in use for over 30 years has home the signature of
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has been made nnder his per
V Jr sonal supervision since its infancy
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All Counterfeits Imitations and Justasgood are bufe
Experiments that trine withand endanger the health of
Infants and Children Experience against Experiment
What is CASTORIA
Cfestoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil Pare-
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Colic It relieves Teething Troubles cures Constipation
and Flatulency It assimilates the Food regulates the
Stomach and Bowels giving healthy and natural sleep
The Childrens Panacea The Mothers Friend
CENUBNE CASTORIA ALWAYS
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lit lse For Over 30 Years
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it for the preBend and we have
been waiting for results hoping
for a gusher before saying much
exceptlo announce the fact The
strata of oil bearipg sand was found
at a depth of 1100 feet The an-
nouncement is made that the rig
which drilled Ibis well will be
moved a few miles just across the
Texas line This is to obviate the
adverse legislation of Louisianaio
piping gas out of the State
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What Money Will Do
Money no doubt is a power but
a power of well defined and narrow
limits It will purchase plenty
but not peace it will furnish your
tabls with luxuries but not with
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yourSickJramepitwill encompasn
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of accusing men but not an accus-
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the terror that crown the browi
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as by the humble cot of the poor
est bof gar which haughty riches
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It is not only in politics but in
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tbej are too smart to be honest
St Paul Dispatch
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When a city man pushes a lawn
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Mr John Riha of Vining la says
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A lot of U6 would get out bare-
footed and Eqush the mud up be-
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conventionalities
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WORLD IN PARAGRAPHS
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Several revolutionists have been ar-
rested at Lisbon
y
Imported baby cradles are now sub-
ject to 60 per cent duty
There will be fifty graduates at the
University of Oklahoma
W II Hand of neaiBraman Okla
found his mother dead in bed
During April there were 157 births
In Dallas countyyand 59 deaths
Roderick Qhver a former Dallas
banker dletLuear Tehuacana Tex
French lost an entire detaohment
in a battle with natives in west Africa
In apolitical fight at Bartlett Tex
slashed in the face
one pian was badly
block of frame buildings burned
Verden Okla entailing 22000 loss
Mayor Lehman of Mattoon 111 re
signed because the city voted out sa
loons
Borne varieties of drouthresisting
cotton are being planted near San An
tonlo
The infant of Wallace Stephenson
of Grand Okla choked to death on
a bean
State Guaranty bank capital stock
15000 Is a new Watonga Okla in
Btitutlon
Span of mules of Will Standley
drowned In Stillwater creek near StllV
water Okla
Dr Manning of Virginia died sud-
denly at Dallas while visiting Dr J
E Baldwin
Colonel Thomas A Gary many years
a leading citizen of Galveston died at
Washington
Postoffice receipts at Dallas fot
April were 4479313 April last year
they were 4285942 j
Oklahoma state board of equaliza
tion has increased tax assessment ol
railroads to 172498910
Citizens of Paris Tex contributed
over 1000 to those who suffered loss-
es by the cyclone at Deport
Chairman J M Mallett calls a meet
ing of the Populist state executive
committee at Cleburne May 12
As the result of lftcal option elections
In Illinois during April hundreds of sa
loons have gone out of business
State Treasurer Sparks was thrown
out of a buggy seventeen miles west
of Belton Tex and a wrist sprained
A gas well has been brought in five
miles south of Tulsa Okla the roar-
ing of which can be heard five miles
Hon W J Bryan declined the pres-
idential nomination of the United
Christian party ill session at Daven-
port la
Robert Gailbreath and associates
propose establishing at Tulsa Okla
one of the largest oil refineries in the
United States
Finding of copper ten miles south-
west of Taiban N M has resulted in
many claims being staked Gold has
also been found
Mrs Frank Nelson who is thirty
eight years old residing at Cedar Hill
Dallas county Texas has given birth
to her sixteenth child
President Roosevelt dally receives
hundreds of letters urging hlni7ta be
a candidate for reeleotloh Hid uni
form answer is a negatlva one
Reports received by eight Iowa rail
roads show that since inauguration of
the 2cent fare there has been an In
crease In passenger earnings
An Infernal machine placdUlnfront
of the Phoenix club at Cincinnati eji
ploded F J Buegel had the greater
part of his left hand blown off
In a duel near Birmingham Ala Dr
J B Garrison shot to death J D Will
lams and was himself dangerously
wounded Doctor was exonerated
Oklahoma State Bankers associa-
tion in annual convention at Oklaho
ma City by a rising vote lndersed the
new banking guaranty law fathered by
Governor Haskell
Manager Verity of the Western
Newspaper Union office at Oklahoma
City has called upon Oklahoma print-
ers to protest against the establish-
ment of a state printing plant
Representaive Ferris of Oklahoma
has introduced in the house the reso-
lution adopted by the legislature of
his state providing for the election
of United StateB senators by direct
voteGraham
Graham Faster of Texas a Yale
college student was clubbed Into In-
sensibility at a fire in New Haven
Conn by a policeman The boiler of
a fire engine also blew up killing a
fireman named Frank Condan
RYANS HORRIBLE FATE
Skull Crushed and Both Legs
Right Arm Severed
Nacogdoches Tex May 4 Hosea
Ryan aged nineteen years was acci-
dentally killed while coupling cars-
on the Howard Lumber companys
tram at Hamptons Front The cars
were loaded with logs for the Hay-
ward mill and as the young man step-
ped between the cars to couple them
his head was caught between the ends
of two logs crushing his skull He
fell dead across the rails and both his
legs and right arm were severed from
his body by the trucks of ono of the
cars passing over him The remains
were shipped to Jewett where the par-
ents of the oyung man reside
DREADFUL DEATH LIST
and
Number of Fatalities Placed at Two
Hundred and Seven
Washington May 2 Commander
Dougherty American naval attache at
Toklo has cabled the navy department
that the total casualties by the ex-
plosion on the cruiser Matsushima was
207
President Sends Condolence
Washington May 2 President
Roosevelt sent his condolence to tho
emperor of Japan regarding the blow-
ing up of a Japanese cruiser with
heavy loss of life
Ten Inches Deep
Jamestown N Y May 2 Snow was
ten Inches deep Friday morning
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but all our clothes all our personal be-
longings were left behind us on the
beach For after once we had topped
the cliff that led over to the cove I
doubt if any consideration on earth
would have induced us to return to
that accursed place
The row out to the ship was wet and
dangerous Seismic disturbances were
undoubtedly responsible for high pyra
midic waves that lifted and fell without
1
out onward movement We fairly tum-
bled up out of the dory which we did
not hoist on decKTbut left at the end
of the painter to beat her sides against
the ship
CHAPTER XXIV
UR haste however availed us
little for there was no wind
at all We lay for over two
houis under the weird light
overcanopied by the red brown cloud
while the explosions shook the founda-
tions of the world Nobody ventured
below The sails flapped Idly from the
masts the blocks and spars creaked
the three cornered waves rose straight
up aud fell again as though reaching
from the deep
When the men first began to sweat
the sails up evidently in preparation
for an immediate departure I objected
vehemently
You arent going to leave him on the
Island I cried Hell die of starva
tionThey
They did not answer me but after a
little more when my expostulations
had become more positive Handy Solo
mon dropped the halliard and drew me
to one side
Look here you he snarled youd
better stow your gab Youre lucky to
be here yourself let alone botherin
your thick head about anybody else
and you can kiss the book on that Do
you know why you aint with them car-
rion He jerked his thumb toward
the beach Its because Solomon An
dersons your friend Thrackles would
have killed you in a minute count of
his bit hand I got you your chance
Now dont be a fool for I aint goln
to stand between you and them an-
other time Besides he wont last long
if that volcano keeps at it
He left me Whatever truth lay In
his assumption of friendship and I
doubted there existed much of either
truth or friendship in him I saw the
common sense of his advice I was in
no position to dictate a course of ac-
tion
After the sails were on her we gath-
ered at the starboard rail to watch the
shore There the hills ran into inky
blackness as the horizon sometimes
merges into a thunder squall A dense
white steam came from the creek bed
within the arroyo The surges beat on
the shore louder than the ordinary and
the foam even in these day hours
seemed to throw up a faint phosphor-
escence Frequent earthquakes oscil-
lated the landscape We watched I do
not know for w hat our eyes straining
into the murk of the island Nobody
thought of the chest which lay on the
cabin table aft I contributed mali
ciously my bit to their fear
These volcanic islands sometimes
sink entirely I suggested and in
that case wed be carried down by
the suction
It was intended merely to increase
their uneasiness but strangely enough
after a few moments it ended by Im-
posing itself on my own fears I be-
gan to be afraid the island would sink
began to watch for it began to share
the fascinated terror of these men-
The suspense after a time became
unbearable for while the portent
whether physical or moral we were
too far under its influence to distin
guish grew momentarily our own
souls did not expand in due corre
spondence We talked of towing of
kedging out of going to any extreme
even to small boats Then just as we
were about to move towaid some ac-
complishment a new phenomenon
chained our attention to the shore
In the mouth of the arroyo appeared
a red glow A moment later a wave
of lava white hot red iridescent cool-
ing to a black crust ciacked in incan-
descence rolled majestically out over
the grassy plain Each instant itgiew
in volume until the raine must have
been flowing half full
Before its scorching the grasses even
at the edge of the sea were smoking
and our camp had already burst into
flames We had to shield our faces
against the heat and the wooden rail-
ing under our hands was growing
warm
Julz turned an ashy countenance to-
ward us
My God he screamed whats go-
ing to happen when she hits the sea
She hit the sea and immediately a
great cloud of steam arose and the
hissing as of a thousand serpents We
felt the strong suction under our keel
and staggeied under the jerk of the
ships cable as she swung toward the
beach The paint was beginning to
crackle along the rail We could see
nothing for the scalding white veil that
enveldped us We could hear nothing
for the roar of steam the bombard-
ment of explosions and the crash of
thunder but our nostrils were assault-
ed by a most unearthly medley of
smells
We were clinging hard as the ship
reeled Huge surges were racing in
from seaward growing larger with
each successive billow
Handy Solomon raised his head lis-
tened intently and struck his forehead
Wind he screamed at the top of
his voice and jumped for the halliards
Thrackles followed him but no one
else moved In an instant the two were
back striking and kicking savagely
rousing their companions to the dan-
ger We all laid into the canvas like
mad and In no time had snugged
down to a staysail and the peak of
our mainsail Thrackles drew his knife
and jumped for the cable while Han-
dy Solomon his ejes snapping seized
the wheel
The Worlds Best Climate
Is not entirely free from disease on the
high elevations fevers prevail while on
the lower levels malaria is encountered
to a greater of less extent according to
altitude To overcome climate affec-
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liousness fever and ague and general
debility the most effective remedy is
Electric Bitters the great alterative
and blood purifier the antedote for ev-
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Indigestion is sometimes diag-
nosed as piety
We finished just In time I was turn-
ing away after tying the last gasket on
the foresail when the deck up ended
and tipped me headforemost into tho
starboard scupper At the same time
a smother of salt water blew over the
port rail now far above me to drench
me as thoroughly as though I had fall-
en overboard I brushed out my eyes
to find the ship smack on her beam
ends and the wind howling by from
the sea
I had company enough in the scup-
pers Only Handy Solomon clung des-
perately to the wheel jamming his
weight to port in the hope she might
pay up Thrackles too his eye squint-
ed along some bearing of his own was
waiting for her to drag Presently it
became evident that she was doing so
whereupon he drew his knife across
our hawser
My God chattered Pulz at my ear
If we go ashore
He did not need to finish Unless the
Laughing Lass could recover before tho
squall had driven her to leeward a
scant half mile we should be cooked
alive in the boiling caldron at the
shores edge
For an interminable time as it seem-
ed to me wo lay absolutely motionless
The scene is stamped indelibly on my
memory the bullwarks high above me
the steep sleek deck the piratical fig-
ure tense at the wheel the snarling
water racing from beneath us the lurid
glow to landward crawling up on us
iuch by inch like a hungry wild beast
Then almost Imperceptibly the brave
schooner righted The stiained lines
on Handy Solomons carven features
relaxed little by little Thrackles star
ing over the side let out a mighty roar
Steerage way he shouted and ex
ecuted an awkward clog dance on the
reeling deck
She moved forward there was no
doubt of that for gradually we were
eating towaid the wind but we made
considerable leeway as well Handy
Solomon taut as the weather rigging
took his little advantages one by one
like precious gifts Light there was
none The land was blotted out by the
steam and murk which had crept to
sea and now was hurled back by the
wind All we could do was to hang
there tasting the copper of excitement
waiting for these different forces to ad-
just themselves Inch by inch w e crept
forward foot by foot we made lee-
way The intensest of the laa glow
worked its way from directly abeam
of the quarter By this we knew we
must be nearly opposite the cove At
once a new doubt sprang up in our
minds
A moment ago all the energy of our
desires had gone up in the ambition to
avoid being cast on the beach Now we
saw that that was not enough It was
necessary to squeeze aiound the point
where lay the Golden Horn in order to
avoid the fate that had overtaken her
Handy Solomon yelled something at
ns We could not hear but our own
knowledge told us what it must be
and with one accord we turned to
on the foresail With the peak of it
hoisted we moved a trifle faster though
the schooner lay over at a perilous
angle A moment later the fogs parted
to show us the cliffs looming startllng
ly near There were the donkey engine
and the works we had constructed for
wrecking and there 1 beside them
watching us leflectively stood Percy
Darrow
For ten minutes we stared at him
fascinaSd duiing which time the
ship labored against the staggenn
winds gained and lost In its bulletin
with the great surges The breakeis
hurling themseUes in wild abandon
against the locks sent their backwash
of tumbling peaks to our very bilges
The few remains of the Golden Horn
alternately drenched and draining
seemed to picture to us our inevitable
end
I think w e had all selected the same
two points for our beaihigs a lock
and a drop of the cliff bolder than the
ordinary If the lock opened from the
cliff to eastward we were lost if It
remained stationaiy we weic at least
holding our own if it opened out to
westward we were saed We watch-
ed with a strained eagerness impos-
sible to desciibe At each momentary
gain or rebuff wo uttered ejaculations
The nigger mumbled charms Every
once lu awhile one of us would snatch
a glance to leeward at the cruel white
Waters the whirl of eddies whcie tho
sea was beaten only to hurry back to
the rock and the point of the cliff
whence our message of safety or de-
struction was to be flung Once I
looked up Percy Darrow was leaning
gracefully against a stanchion watch-
ing His soft hat was pulled over his
eyes He stroked softly Els little
mustache I caught the white puff of
his cigarette During the moment of
my Inattention something happened
A wild shout burst from the men I
whirled and saw to my great joy a
strip of sky westward between the
cliff and the rock And at that very
instant a billow larger than the or
dinary rolled beneath us and in the
back suction of its passage I could
dimly make out cruel dangerous rocks
lying ulmo = t under our keel
Slowlj it aw iy Our progress
seemed I < Uinil aud yet it was
real I 1 Le we lnd gained bca
room iu awhile nioie we were filrly
under sailing way and the cliffs had
begun to drop from our quarter With
one accord we looked back Percy
Darrow waved his hand in an inde-
scribably graceful and ironic gesture
then turned square on his heel and
sauntered away to the north alley out
of the course of the Una That was
the last I ever saw of him
As we made our way from beneath
the island the weight of the wind
seemed to lessen We got the foresail
on her then a standing jib finally lit-
tle by little all her ordinary working
canvas Before we knew It we were
bowling along under a stiff breeze and
the island was dropping astern
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From a distance it presented a truly
Imposing sight The center shot inter-
mittent blasts of ruddy light explo-
sions deadened by distance still rever-
berated strongly the broad canopy of
brown red split with lightnings spread
out like a huge umbrella The lurid
gloom that had enveloped us in the at-
mosphere apparently of a nether world
had given place to a twilight Abrupt-
ly we passed from it to a sun kissed
sparkling sea The breeze blew sweet
and strong the waves ran nntortured
In their natural long courses
At once the men seemed to throw off
the superstitious terror that had cowed
them Pulz and Thrackles went to
ball the extra dory alongside which
by a miracle had escaped swamping
The nigger disappeared in the galley
Perdosa relieved Handy Solomon at
the wheel and Handy Solomon came
directly over to me
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CHAPTER XXV
ANDY SOLOMON approached
me with a confidence that pro-
claimed the new leader A
brace of revolvers swung from
his belt the tatters of his blood stain-
ed garments hung about him
Well here we are he remarked
I nodded waiting for what he had to
disclose
And lucky for you that youre here
at all say I he continued And now
that youre here wat are you going to
do Thats the question wat are you
going to Jo He cocked his head side-
wise and looked at me speculate ely as-
a cat might look at a rather large
mouse We been a little rough he
went on after a moment and some
folks is straitlaced There might be
trouble And you know a heap too
muchWhat
What do you want of me I de
demanded
Its just this he returned briskly
If joull lay us our course to San
Salvador well let you go as one of us
and no questions asked
If not I inquired
He shrugged his shoulders I leave
it to you
Theres always the sea I sug-
gested
And its deep he agreed
Wo looked out to the horizon in a
diplomatic silence I 1 d not know
whether to be angry amused or alarm-
ed that the man estimated my clever-
ness so slightly Why the hook was
barely concealed and the bait of the
coarsest That I would go safe to a
sight of San Salvador I did not doubt
That I would never enter the harbor I
was absolutely certain The choice of-
fered me was practically whether I
preferred being thrown overboard now
or seeral hundred miles to southeast-
ward
I thought rapidly It might be possi-
ble to announce a daily false reckon-
ing to the crew to sail the ship within
rowing distance of some coast and then
to escape while the men believed them-
selves many hundred miles at sea It
would take nice calculation to prevent
suspicion but as it was the only
chance I resolved upon It immediately
Thats all very well I said firnlly
but you cant get anywhere without
me and Im not going to put in two
years and then keep my mouth shut
for nothing I want a share in the
swag an even share with the rest of
youOh
Oh thatll be all light he cried
You can hai e it
If anything was needed to convince
me of the mans sinister intentions
this too leady acquiescence would have
been enough I knew him too well If
he had had the slightest intention of
permitting me to go free he would
have bargained
The nigger called us to mess We
ate in the after cabin The chest was
After mess tie went on deck again
locked and tbe men had as yet been
unable to break into it Pulz profess-
ed some skill in locksmithing and
promised to experiment later After
mess wo went ou deck again The Is-
land had dropped down to the horizon
aud showed as a brilliant glow under
a dark canopy I leaned over the rail
looking at it Below me the extra
doiy bumped along The idea came
to me that if I could escape that night
I could row back to Percy Darrow
The two of us could make shift to live
on fish and shellfish and mutton The
plan rapidly defined itself in my brain
From the remains of the Golden Horn
we could construct some kind of a
craft in which to run free to the sum-
mer trades Thus we might in time
reach some one or another of the
Sandwich Islands whence a passing
trader could take us back to civiliza-
tion There were many elements of
uncertainty in the scheme but It seeni
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ed to me less desperate than trusting to
the caprices of these men especially
since they now had free access to the
liquor stores
u
While I leaned over the rail engross-
ed in these thoughts ono of the black
thunderclouds that had been gather-
ing and dissipating over the island dur-
ing the entire afternoon suddenly glow-
ed overhead with a strange white In-
candescence startlngly akin to Darj
rows so called devil fires Strange
ly enough this illumination unlike the
volcanic glows appeared to be cast on
the clouds from without rather than
shot through them from within as
were the other volcanic emanations
At the same instant I experienced
sharp Interior revulsion of some sort
most briefly momentary but of a char-
acter that shook me from head to toe
I had no time to analyze these vari-
ous impressions however for my at-
tention was almost Instantly distract-
ed From the cabin came the sound
of a sharp fall then a man cried out
and on the heels of it Pulz darted from
the cabin screaming horribly We
were all on deck and as the little man
rnshed toward the stern Handy Solo-
mon twisted him deftly from his feet
What Is it he cried as he pinned
the sufferer to the deck
But Pulz could not answer He shiv-
ered stiffened and lay rigid his eyes
rolled back
Fits remarked Thrackles impa-
tiently
The excitement died Rum was forc-
ed between the victims lips After a
little he recovered but could tell us
nothing of his seizure
After the dishes had been swept
aside from supper Handy Solomon an-
nounced a second attempt to open the
chest
Pancho here says hes been a me-
chanic said he I right well know
hes been a housebreaker so hes got
the sabe for the job and you can kiss
the book on that
Perdosa with a grin leaned over the
cover from behind and began to pick
away at the lock with a long crooked
wire The others drew close about I
slipped nearer the door imagining that
In their riveted interest I saw my op-
portunity To my surprise t caught
a glimpse of legs disappearing np the
companion I took stock Pulz had
gone on deck >
This surprised me for I Bhould have
thought every man interested enough
In the supposed treasure to wish to be
present at Its uncovering and it an-
noyed me still more The success of
my plan demanded a clear deck How
ever there was nothing for it now but
to trust that Pulz had wished to visit
the forecastle and that I might find the
afterworks empty
I paused at the foot of the companion
and looked back A breathlessness of
excitement held the pirates In a vise
From above the hanging lamp threw
strong shadows across their faces
bringing out the deep lines accentuat-
ing the dominant passions With their
rags and blood their unshaven faces
their firearms their filth they showed
in violent antithesis to the Immaculate
white of Old Scrubs cabin its glitter-
ing brass and Its shining leather I
darted up the steps
The contrast of the starry night with
the glare of the cabin lamp dazzled my
eyes I stood stock still for a moment
during which the only sounds audible
were the singing of the winds through
the rigging the wash of the sea and
the small sharp click of Perdosaa In-
strument as he worked at the chest
Presently I could see better 1 look-
ed forward and aft for Pulz but could
see nothing of him and had just about
concluded that he had gone forward
when I happened to glance aloft
There to my astonishment I made
him out huddled in silhouette against
the stars close to the main truck
What he was doing there I could not
Imagine However I did not have
time to bother my head about him
further than to rejoice that he could
not obstruct me
I should very much have liked to get
hold of a rifle and ammunition or at
least to lay in biscuit and water but
for this there was no time It waa
not absolutely essential The dull glow
of the Island was still visible I had
my pillar of fire and smoke to guide
me Without further delay I jerked
loose the painter and drew the extra
dory alongside
I had proceeded Just so far in my
movements when the most extraordi-
nary thing happened I shall try to
tell you of it as accurately as possible
and In the exact order of its occur-
rence First a long straight shaft of
white light shot straight up through
the cabin roof to a great height It
shone through the wooden planks as
an ordinary light shines through glass
By contrast the surrounding blackness
was thrown into a deeper shade and
yet the shaft Itself was so brilliant as
almost to scotch the sight Curiously
enough it was defined accurately be-
ing exactly in shape like one of the
rectangular tin air shafts you see so
often In city hotels At the instant of
its appearance the wind fell quite
calm
Almost immediately the rectangle on
the roof through which the light made
its passage began to splay out like
lighted oil although the column retain-
ed still the integrity of Its outline
The fire If such it could be called ran
with Incredible rapidity along the
seams between the planks forward and
aft until the entire deck was sketched
like a pyrotechnic display in thin viv-
id lines of incandescence From each
of these lines then the fire began again
to spread as though soaking through
tho planks
All took place practically in an In-
stant of time I had no opportunity
to move or to cry out Indeed my
perceptions were Inadequate to the
task of mere observation Up to now
there had been no sound The wind
had fallen The waters passed unno-
ticed A stillness of death seemed to
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