' i 1 "'I* was s<? was proved l.y tlit?
lact thai the others to man refused
to believe that he was haunted. There
was. then, no hope whatever that thov
would help him in his llyht against the
! aiipernatural. There remained hut on*
i tiling for him to do.
With furtive cunning he addressed
j iiiiusel f to the eonsummation of ),i?
scheme.
| Burr, lie well understood, whs no?
aboard the ya.-ht, hm thosu fo0|s
| imagined. hut lurking: over the side in
the water. Just beneath the surface
whore he had been when Utamon had
first espied him. two days ago
; A bold mun. like the Prime Ministei
Ki"?-r hlmen of Alania. nlone eouht
; put an end to this persecution. It
i meant going overboard t? fight it-out
in the water hamNto-haiul with the
dead man ...
| < "ount Itamon found himself at the
i l,e?riug over. In the tnilkv wash
; that swept away from the S|,ie |1P ,n<,.
covered wh:it he hud thought to see
lie was almost over when the tirst
ba'dt. anA> 1,rWd him
,,n "'?? wm, n shriek.
A moment later there was a hetvv
; 8w offl'"r ??*? ???;??
,,''''7, ,h? stokehold. Phili,, alM,
,. ?n I.opez were applying themselves
diligently to their tasks when the ran.
nun and \ ktorine Xavat/. entered '
?e ore Juan eoubl slam shut the fur
? ,1h0 of l-'hilip was all
^unmistakably reveal that hot
arm" th^'nT'"" ???'???clatorv
them " U'aS s',ol,fed down to
""" Overl?o? r?l.
r,:: };X
lime, -n,,; ?t
i~nt \.unl\ some way of n,
?" ?TIM, a u
i hold, they followed their fr>]
lows up to the deck.
? So quickly had l!lPy worked that
t"> arrived m time SOl. t-mi..
