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She had no hypothesis, and though they talked it over, they reached no conclusion By eight o'clock she fell asleep in her warm nest, and Stern steered on alone, by the stars, under promise to put into harbor where New Haven once had stood, and there hiet some much-needed sleep

Swiftly the yawl split the waters of the Sound, for though her sail was crude, her body was as fine and speedy as his long experience with boats could ht and sea penetrated his soul as he held the boat on her way

The night was reat untroubled stars wondered down at this daring venture into the unknown

Stern hu easily over thebreeze, he passed an hour or two He sat down, braced the tiller, and resigned himself to contemplation of the mysteries that had been and that still must be And very sweet to hiuardianship, wherein he held the sleeping girl, in the shelter of the little cabin

He ? He could not tell All that he kneas, suddenly, that he had wakened to full consciousness, and that a sense of uneasiness, of fear, of peril, hung about him

Up he started, with an excla Beatrice Through all, over all, a vast, dull roar was hty waters rushing, leaping, echoing to the sky that droned the echo back again

Whence came it? Stern could not tell From nowhere, from everywhere; the hum and vibrant blur of that tremendous sound seemed universal

"My God, what's that?" Allan exclai fear "I've got Beatrice aboard, here; I can't let anything happen to her!"

The gibbous elyplain of waters Far off to southward a dim headland showed; even as Stern looked it drifted backward and away

Suddenly he got a terrifying sense of speed The headland must have lain five miles to south of hione into the vague obliteration of a vastly greater distance

"What's happening?" thought Stern The wind had died; it see with the wind, as fast as the wind; the yaas keeping pace with it, even as a floating balloon drifts in a stor it