The Argosy, April 1916 — page 115: what you’re looking at

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i . \ o b eae : -sos - a ae ea 2 Yy A THREE-PART STORY—PART TWO SYNOPSIS OF CHAPTERS ALREADY PRINTED. Ces away half-naked on Big Twin Island in the Caribbean, H. A. Danforth was secretly res- cued by the voodoo seeress, Mother Juliet. She, together with Overseer William Ransom and others, had been organizing the plantation blacks to rebel against the owner, Captain Neville. So far had the plot progressed that Ransom’s accomplices, Jake Haas, Sailor Pete, and Black Henry, had smuggled in a boatload of arms. Neville’s suspicious superintendent, Michael Sands, threw Black Henry into chains, but did not find the arms. Henry’s friends at once planned a rescue. Ransom and Mother Juliet prepared to attend a secret meeting at which they would beg the others not to act till the arrival of a mysterious stranger who might tip the scales either way. This stranger, whose advent was “ prophesied ” by Mother Juliet, is of course Danfofth, whom she is already sheltering. By producing him in due season, the voodoo woman anticipated much credit for her powers of prophecy. As Ransom and Mother Juliet prepared to leave the seeress’s dwelling for the conclave, Dan- forth, sleeping heavily in a concealed chamber at the rear, was awakened out of a nightmare to find a woman, lithe and strong, lying with her smooth cheek and fine hair against his bare breast. CHAPTER VIII SEARCH. TILL as the woman herself Danforth S remained, groping his way out of the labyrinth of his dreams into the maze of the actual. That the woman had fainted he assured himself promptly. How she came to be here, and why she had put her hand on his face and roused him, were matters beyond his comprehending. Gently he raised his arm and gently stroked the woman’s face, murmuring to her stupid, conventional words such as: ‘You are all right now, aren’t you? you are all right.” No response from the woman—but a shuffling of hurried feet on the other side of the door. Danforth fell silent. Mother Juliet, if it was she moving in there, would notice that Say the door was open; perhaps wide, at least part way. | The hurried shuffling of feet continued, interrupted suddenly by the jarring noise of a human body bumping against some piece of furniture. Danforth’s ears were _preternaturally acute because his wide-awake eyes could see only darkness, and he was aware of the woman’s still pressure solely by the feel of her cheek against his chest. She stirred slightly. Danforth took ad- vantage of her movement to. glide softly from under her head and shoulders, just as a shrill voice in the adjoining room rang out, half-pleading, half-peremptory in its address to Mother Juliet. In a tone of irritation Mother Juliet re- plied, but her words escaped Danforth. He was noticing that the woman who had fallen across him on the cot was slipping 105 MICLOOOKS C©