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A ( Nv we _— ~ KAY \\\Y \SS NY: 0 \ . ” ory . \ a SY YJ 7 \ age d Or tS re , , ee NY ‘ N ge £ ¢ By JOHN CUNNINGHAM WHAT HAS OCCURRED IN PART lf. IMMY WENDELL, just out of college, goes on a yachting trip with Dr. and Mrs, Meredith, their daughter, Eleanor; Nicky, their twelve-year-old son, who has occasional spells of savage cruelty, and Dr. Grame, a friend. Some one on board tries to throw George, a sailor, over- board. Jimmy suspects Nicky. While on deck Jimmy himself is struck and thrown over. Despite sharks, he reaches a small island. Later Eleanor drifts on a raft to the same island and tells how the yacht was wrecked on a reef, disappears. CHAPTER VI. A DREAD SUSPICION, Y first reaction was amazement and Vi incredulity. I could not realize that anything had happened. How- ever, the empty pallet before me was a clamorous proof that Eleanor was not where she should have been, and the ache in my head told me that I had been dealt a heavy blow. In the night Jimmy is clubbed unconscious and Eleanor As I rose to my feet a rapid fire of ques- tions ran through my mind. What had struck me on the head? What had become of Eleanor? Was she near by or far away? A hasty survey of the clearing disclosed no signs of the missing girl. Everything, ex- cept the tumbled and wrecked pallet, was just as it had been the night before. Lifting my voice, I called Eleanor’s name loudly. The mass of waving green man- groves seemed to devour the sound, for no This story began in the Argosy-Allistory Weekly for April 7. 677 Gomichboo (C@