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Ignoring the silent, expectant crowd and the tall figure of Kanant, alave quick commands: "Now, clear these boats away on both sides! Make a free space, here--wider--so, that's right Now, all you et hold of the ropes--all of you, here, take hold, you! Ready, now? Give way, then! Out she co in fear and keen anxiety beside hiht was hard, torn as he was between loyalty to the newcomers and terror of the iht but the ainly wings of theup, up, out of the jetty waters; and now the body, now the engine shoeed-festooned, se and awesohastly torch-flare, as the toilingslope of the beach

Dense silence held the waiting throng; silence and awe, in face of this incoer spoke not a word He had lost sohtiness Perhaps he had already heard some tales of these interlopers' terrible weapons

Stern saw the estured with it; the high-lights glea the barrel seemed to fascinate the tall barbarian But still he drew no step backward Still in silence, with crossed arms, he waited, watched and took counsel only with hiineer, and heaved a sigh of genuine, heartfelt relief "See, Beatrice, there s our old , here, bent, and the rent where the grapple tore the leather covering of the starboard plane I can't see that it's taken any daine's intact, the rest will be easy Plenty of chance for ht up to the village, now?" queried she, anxiously glancing at the crowd of white and silent faces, all eagerly staring--staring like so e dream

He shrugged his shoulders

"That depends," he answered He see peril in the village, near the great fla of dull drureat mechanical bird, which now lay wounded, weed-covered, sodden and dripping, yet eloquent of infinite possibilities, there on that black, unearthly beach