Abducted During The Wedding

LAYS AT FLIRTAT

HE HANDSOME YOUNG CAPTAIN, LOOKING FUL

short and looked at Hubert Varrick

ebody��anybody! Half my

the captain, sharply. "Has

that a life-boat be at once lowered by the crew, calling upon Varr

he boat; and an instant later the boat was flying ov

r?" asked the

ly! Here, take this bank-note, and, in Heaven's name, row sharp! No one is drowning,

dropped

ave sent out a life-boat," declared the man. "He th

land is no news to th

u mean?" cr

man; "and surely there's no one more competent to relate it than m

u-Winet Island, and a few days later a score or more of workmen appeared one ni

he inhabitants around Alexandria Bay,

onth or more, never once coming in

Soon their mysterious manners becam

ouse��almost a castle�� hidden from any one who mig

ed, and the strange, uncanny workmen took t

orkmen had left behind them a large, ferocious dog who menaced

if I live to be the age of Methuselah. I was standing near the

re me. By his side, leaning heavily upon his arm, yet swaying strangely to and fro, as though she were

to speak, the gentleman

ly in

as possible, to Wau-Winet Islan

the lady into the boat, but he thrust me aside and

in a strong wind; but he steadied her by holding he

er hands free, and like a flash she had torn off her thick veil, and then I saw a sight that made the blood run col

ruggle that ensued between them made the boat rock like a cradle. In an instant

a glimpse of a face so wondrous in its loveliness and its haughtiness that

r time!' cried the gen

les, he lifted her out of the boat. Then he thrust a b

instant did his hold relax upon the girl'

urned to me with the look of a

might go,'

w to keep your tongue still,' the man s

idstream the girl grew

so tightly about her mouth, then with a cry which I shall never forget while life

ve of Heaven! Don't desert me! Com

panion hurled her back so quickly that she complet

'and not one word of wha

a lady in distress

ever seen equaled, he turned

cried, his right hand creeping toward his hip

in where I was; so, despite the girl's pitiful entreatie

an it takes to tell it, a half dozen of us started back for Wau-Winet Island. Arriving, we crept silently up the steep path that led to the house. My loud ringin

o aid the young girl who appealed

me, until they filled the wide ent

dy on Wau-Winet Island, nor has any woman ever put foot u

young lady over to this island within this hour, a

ot!' he decla

turning to my companions, 'seeing that you have had the trouble of coming here��brought by this lunatic

prise, we took h