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?? !?M.M<m'MMm!tV<D.) ?0 ROBBERY. M ?? FTiNBY FRITH. ? ?WtXcf c/ "7%e JKy??y <? ?&<M' jFhfm," "? ? IVings of the Wind," 11 Through Flood, Throug4 I Fir e, .4-c. I.e. i TÔ ? CHAPTER X. 'WATER, WATER, EVERYWHBUB, ? BUT NOT A DROP TO DRINK PAY succeeded night and so OS 101 severa.1 days, and no land was reached. The situation had its full Complement of horrors. Hope cleared fear away at Brst, but soon the latter rallied round him despair and all his attendant demons, and excitement gave place to madness, and then the scene was indeed one to make angels weep. is The men grew desperate. Each outdid, or endeavoured to outdo, the other in blasphemies which made the blood run cold, and alternated with their prayers for safety. The heat w s terrible, and Nothing but the nrmnesa of the mate, the doctor, and the clergyman prevented the other men from corn- turning the little share of water they possessed. 4 Caunt and haggard faces, with wild and bleary eyes, gazed constantly across the tossing sea. The motion of the boat was scarcely noticed. A sail had been got up, and they were going now merrily along, yet attended by two enormous sharks, which kept oaily and nightly watch upon their anticipated yict{m9. It Once a passenger, exhausted <md half sleeping, let his hand and arm hang listlessly down. Hit bead dropped upon his shoulder and he slept. But Dot ao his enemy. Mrs. Lay ton (for all readers have already recognised her) was sitting upright, dazed, staring at the water, yet eCMOO seeing it. Her thoughts were far away over 'I', the ocean in England. She had before her the little cottage, and the cutting and the tunnel. Th< jcight she had run away from home to share her husband's lot was now so vividly presented to her mental gaze that she almost fancied the present wa< tt dream, and the terrible past an unsubstantial TMion. fr A movement in the water round her, a gliding motion, a something was perceptible in the semi- darkness of the night advancing to the boat, an<t making for the unsuspecting sleeper. She at one* divined the cause. A shark A shark! The scream with which she accompanied the earning cry awoke the sleepers and* scared the tinister.looking nsh, which was just about to tmm and dash upon his prey. Another had joined him, and these two came so close alongside that they almost tubbed their noses against the loat. But "though they sheered off for the time, they did not leave the Castaways, and thus days passed slowly, the occu- pants of the boat being in a half-stupened condition, and almost desperate. (I it I One afternoon a cry of joy arose from the parched lips of the crew. A man had risen in the tCOW of the boat, and was extending his hand. He bad perceived something-was it land ? 0 He was too exhausted to articulate freely. His 'dry and painful throat and tongue refused to answer to his will; but he pointed, and the haggard face* looked gaunter and more terrible in their expectancy than ever they had in their letha'gy. But itwa* land-the low shore could be seen, and comforted the unfortunate sufferers. If the wind held they would doubtless soon reach the longed-for shore, and some of the less exhausted in the boat made feeble eiforts to row. That they helped a little was evident, and all the castaways COW plucked up courage and sat up. The land w« Rear, but looked forbidding. t' Still It was land, and anyone who has been away from shore for Ion gwill understand the delight In again touchmg ground which the occupants of the boat experienced after all the dangers they had escaped. All these were now forgotten in the delirium of treading upon term jirma. The stronge t of the party immediately went along the coast in search of food. Others, and amongst th&m Mrs. Deane and Mrs. Layton, who remained to comfort each other a little if the word can be used to describe such intercourse where there was no sympathy. There was no water left cn board, and in the II'. tie rivulet the poor thirsty famishing creatures bathed their faces and drank luxuriously. C AP [, Some crabs were found and eaten raw and alive, devoured without a thought of cooking'. When jpeveral of the largest had been thus disposed of, languor again asserted Its sway, and sleep came creeping upon all. But the doctor and the mate, with some of the most willing of the sailors, managed to haul the boat up and turn it ovow 'againstarock.. Mender this temporary shelter the women vtM Mcommodated for the night, and it is wonderful to remember how they bore the perils and sustained their courage amid the strange and terrIMe sur- roundings. The recollection of those few days appear now like a chapter of the Family Robinson more than the sober reality I know it to have been. Poor Mrs. Deanc bore up wonderfull'y, but a s'td time for her was at hand. Lucy T-avtou appeared strangely absorb d. She was at one ti'ne in boi"krons spirits, !Utd fts active aaama.n. ¡\ t I)i her times sh8 would [,it llT si 'g her baby-boy, and crcouing'over It like an o:d woman, rather than a. young one. Again she appeared thoughtful :.md !a.'cula.tmg, and wf)'d<l onv?r.e at times with Mrs Deane, r nt nororm!:nw!!1Bd her buaba-nd. V,"ben he \Y:).s spnkcn of, her eyca fashed and I,eT- c\n.hed even in her misery she was O.urshig-hcrrc'Mmc. On the Fee nd day VI' Dcnr' ws ta1¡.n in. It wasa.tefriM -f(-)r ter i't WilS en- tirely l);¡t; ii,, she tended tLc p or !:tdy tcnrlcr'Ly. 'I";)" was so prostrate he could s'u'ceiy do ;tll b'it his a'l- yice was 'fol o .d, Mnd the an\'ons day MFSsd awny. &! The Httle ch:j rJ" íL:, b,wn, nj.<l cri' d a'td miD gled í t 8 t!nyt?eblew!{h'heb:!ssof '.he on Uie hC:ieh, and Mra, uvu; .aw the ehild-a Little girl— and tended It- The poor mother w.i sir. a ycry ill plip'ht. bc ¡¡lr .her (}(,lLh fin T'en' one da: that evrn {.he r 'Iuh gailors left or! ;.h)y ':nd. qu rr-;I —to them mud) the Hlnw--lo ftk how chacla;n was, &nd how th"' cLI d wtTS getung- on. Mrs. Deane WAS very ul—deHnous—and Lucy tended hrr for very-ham. but p!ott'ng in her heart. Ip the dellri"us ravings of the apparently dying mother many things wore said, and revealed to .the

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I I 0 f- 1- Though you Rub I Rub! Rub! And you Scrub' Scrub t Scrub! You'll find that It's not in your power In the old-fashioned way. To do in a day What Hudson's Will do in an hour, HUDSON S bOAP, A FtNK POWDER—tN PACKKM I Executed at the Chronicle Office, Penarth. !rr\portar\t Notice A Series of Mieles ENTITLED- .7imoINY SlieR IN SEARCH OF 51 Wife. ¡W in be commenced In OUR NEXT ISSUE. SYNOPSIS- l—I am a Bachelor 2-1 feel lonely 3—I Search for a Wife 4-1 see a face-and love 5- I pop the question 6-1 become engaged 7-1 ask her Pa's consent 8-1 get Married 9—1 spend the Honeymoon 10-1 am-what The Series will illustrate the difncul- ties of one of our townsmen in his earnest quest for a partner In his joys and sorrows-

unscrupulou'5 nuraE a way to have rev< nge. The property would all descend to an heir; the child, as yet unrecognised by Its mother, was a girl. The temptation came and was admitted. -Let us chaiige </f<° fA''MrcM. My boy shall be the heir of all the proud estates-the girl shall be my charge instead, and I shall then, through him, control the fortune-! of the future Deanes; aye, better still, shall stab the father In a tender place; when all his love is centred on his heir! This whisper came to her at night-almost audibly it seemed to her-as she sat gazing on the moonlit beach and scanning the sea, whose never-ceasing surf keep booming on the shore. But how to effect the exchange ? Her own child would never pass as Mrs. Deane's while on that there. The doctor-would know them even. No; the doctor had been there but once, and never inquired for the child. lie was ill, poor man, and, some said, dying. The clergyman was asked, and had been put aside at once. Nothing easier should the mother not yet recover: and if a ship would only come how well it might be done' And so she thought and planned all night, and nursed the children underneath the boat turned bottom upward on the beach. Two pretty mites they were, these babes—both very small and fair, with dark and dark-blue eyes and dimpled arms and rounded cheeks, though pale just then-brother and tister they might be as yet; and so Lucy pandered tven as she nursed the heiress, and watched her baby sleeping. The morning dawned, and still she sat and gazed in dreamy longing e'er the sea. Of a sudden she started up, and with 'a piercing scream roused the sailors and the other men at once. The doctor, pushing from his hut of boughs, was running head- long to the sea. He was mad—the fever had seized him in its full embrace—and he was mad' Ere they could stop him he had rushed to the rocks, which were high above the swirling sea. Throwing his arms aloft, he I eried out: Help help! A sail! a sail! Hurrah!" He teaped into the foaming breakers and was seen no more alive. For one brief second his head was -visible in the foam, and then he sank to bf torn in pieces by the sharks which crowded round the body. 1 Lucy Layton heaved a dee" sigh. Poor man she said, despite herself, and then a rushing flood of thought came full upon her br .in. The l!t,st objec- tion to her plan had been removed. The doctor dt;nd she had nothing more to fear. The children woutdbt changed, and her revenue would be a'complisbed. But the poor maniac's cries had duectcd attention to the sea; and yonder, bearing down with sa' Is all set, her sails at full from truck to tanrail, comes a full-rigged ship, the Biiti,h ensin streaming from the peak. They came nearer and nearer. A yell of joy and welcome went up from all assembled on the shore. Ha da were Nvvf,,d, oars were spliced and lifted up with handle chiefs for fags, and cheer after cheer as given for the ship. The clergyman amongst the rest was wild as any schoolboy, and ran up and down upon the shore within a srrull space as if he had. hit a succession, of sixes at'a cricket match and w:s running them all out at once. The noise and cheering had long ere this awakened Mrs. Dcane, who iecbly inquired the cause of all the uproar. She had then recovered her faculties, and Lucy noticed her collected manner and her lo fin gaze as it rested on the child. Give me my baby, nurse," cried the poor mother. How can I ever repay you—tell me. Yes; th<re then, my darling'. Come, give it to me— quick. 13 it a boy or girl r_l hope——- But which is it ?—<cll me. Lucy pretended not to hear, but the question could not be ignored. Now or never was the time. A. aigh escaped her, but she rose, and taking up the <:hild, xhe said- A si,lendici. boy--fin heir for the colonel, worthy of his parents, I'll be bound "A boy! Ob, nurse, I am so glad. Colonel Deano wiU be delighted. My hoy, my boy And th& poor lady, clasping the baby'boy, fell* backwards on the rough couch which had been ex- temporised for her use. In a few hours afterwards the survivors of the IJurham Castl were taken on board the homeward- bound ship which had picked up another boat, and came cruising on the chance so near the shore on which the rescued people had gained a footing. Thus Lucy Layton had succeeded in her plan, and, clasping the little girl in her arms, she went on board the ship defiant and expectant. Her revenge had yet to come unon the man who tad despised and scorned her thr<*ugh his supposed thild-her own. on' (TQ be continued.)