Shrieking like a lunatic, he fell grov
velling the deck.
Tli? six suu't'iiiu reports
the Savsitz woman hastily from h< i
stateroom. She appeared just an iu
utaiit too soon. Philip was still on tlie
companion way: in another breath, he
I vanished; but the woman had seen
him?and she was a slave neither to
superstition nor to the bottle.
The i usillude i.i the saloon ha?
rouse.! I he ship. As h- swung round
the after deckhouse, Philip encounter
ed o,." of the ship'- officers runnu'S -<n.
The man seized Philip's sleeve, com.
ntatiditig him to halt and give an a.
?.ount of him?*-it. A ?venpon glnnni. i -
,.,1 i,, his other hand. Philip stj"ck
out with every oijnce of him behind lo
hioWw His list landed on th< oih.-i -
imv With a loud snap the mans
beau Jerked back, and he fell.
Without other misadventure. I bn?P
mafic ilis way lorwurd and found J Man
1 .one/. Tumbling hastily down the
.omp.inWn ladder, the two fe.l ",to
their berths and In a twinkling wrc
ostem-lbly asleep.
portuiiaK'lv. Ihe shots had failed t ?
disturb too fatigued slumbers of tt ir
fellows off-watch. None was siw-iko 10
witness their return, not a soul mi:
peelei. they had been out of the lore
castle
p,ac:< i!i tiie main saloon there w ?
opioar. Surrounded by office! s 'iti'j
?;e v.H rils. Itamon?r.-stored to iwiiu.l
? ?ol.'M'etice by a douche of ice-via'er
over his head?was stammering out ins
tt.le of terror?a story receive.! h> liia
Audience with patient incredulity til
it was supported by tin testimony <?.
Viotoriiie. Savatz.
"Ilut ii v.'as no spirit!'" the wotn:in
insist oil. "\Vi7. n.% "Wis ?yes I ""
:,iun lo- is "live?he is tlesh ami blood.
