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In vain did he struggle Terrible thoughts that Beatrice, too, ht be subjected to this peril and humiliation branded the her naht availed There caefroular, guttural tone--words rendered dull by the high coht be he could not tell, yet their general sound seeely familiar and their command was indubitable

But, still half-delirious, Stern tried again to stretch up his ar, even as a sickfrom etherization raves and half sees the nurses and doctors, yet dreams wild visions in the midst of pain

The man, however, only shook his head, and with a broad, fir to sit up Stern, understanding nothing clearly, relapsed to quietude To hiht came: "This is only another delusion after all!" And then a vast and poignant woe possessed hiht be But under the compulsion of that powerful hand, he lay quite still

Half consciously he see prone in the bottoely forularnostrils penetrated a rank and pungent odor of fish, with another the like of which he never had known--an odor not unpleasant, yet keenly penetrant and all-pervading Wet through, the engineer lay reeking in heat and steam, wrapped in his suit of heavy furs Then he heard a ripple of water and felt the motion of the craft as it was driven forward

Another voice spoke now and the strange ineer half seeible

"Where's the girl, you?" he shouted with all his ht "What have you done with her? If you hurt her, damn you, you'll be sorry! Where--where is she?"

No answer It was evident that English speech conveyed no uish and sheer pain

The boat rocked Another unwale to steady hi vapor by the blue-green light of the cresset at the bow

He was clad in a coarse kind of brownish stuff, like the first, roughly and loosely woven His long hair, pure white, isted up in a kind of topknot and fastened there by pins of dull gold Bearded he was, but not one hair upon his head or chin was other than silvery white--a color common to all these folk, as Stern was soon to know