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ne sits 7 ne Wel hs a 1 Mag dave heen Groby ” su selod Felton. ) ee ; s “Romeo. saw him there at eleven o clock, in his wit A pack his bag, and come up the path. In his state of ces health he could not have done it. Furthermore, it wey : ras a soft, slodgy, shuffling tread heard, such as ‘condition. No; ; we had a stranger there: ie Gah en—who | ae Ouiery, ae The only course to take was to watch and ae a out ie the intruder was. There they had ‘to leave the matter, and Charley Vee had sufli- Dis it was open and the bear gone. He could aie a othing of that, for he was almost certain it would be a: ‘ound dead. Ta any case, he expected to learn that 4 the bear was seriously ill. ua pt was too bulky to be removed by the ae if he :: oe he was Pa vese5a by Eveline, athe had stolen up behind him. | “ _ “T thought you were afraid of the bear 2” she said. Be wf My child, it is not here,” he answered. | oN The ae have taken it out. There was some- Ss Yo, but more lively than usual. Almost as stupid Bi aN in| he frivolous ways aS some men are when they a. _ have’ been drinking.” shy ae “ How strange !” me ‘So Morse said. He was of opinion that it must cS ee eaten or drunk something wrong. But, as he 4 ‘said, what would kill anything else was good for as aye. , _ The brute is poison-proof,” muttered the school- a a aghast. Pe _ killing him.” i ag the poison. had not worked. - when he prepared the dose for Charley. Rati on oh f Oe herself. int that direction to take Charley’s life. remains to be seen. Afterwards he had to look out his clothes, | _assembled at the table. meant, “TI must find out some other way of As ae pesaed aside, Eveline smiled in a peculiar | | after them, but the vast majority had sent their sons _ _ It was her hand that removed it from the phial during her father’s absence from his study, and in the place of belladonna was nothing but plain water re It was a matter, she felt, on which silence would a be golden, and she kept the secret of the ere to Bar Anyway,she had succeeded in stopping all efforts : Whether it would ultimately ensure the safety of that animai ISLA i VD COLT | 7 ’ iP 1 a) a CORRESPONDENCE PROHIBITED, T was about fins) when | Re homeward-bound — ‘sasili was expected, and on t - oy following day ‘the boys 3 began to prepare letters to seh He _ their friends. Mr. Farrell, aoe ry Oy tie ' promptly issued | a general ve ae order that all letters would ~ Mi , have to be left gue for his: ua perusal prior to bee sentaway. — git ane ait The indignation aroused by this command y was very great. But the schoolmaster had a plausible state- ment to make that he hoped would soften down the ae situation. “ 4 * a He gave it just previous to dinner, when all had oe | <Sialy | ““T feel,” he said, “ that some irritation may be felt: on reading my general order, but it is kindly — Cee Granted that we have recently heent dis- turbed by events of a very serious nature, I am a convinced that they have now terminated. To write — home alarming accounts of our life here would be © to end the school, which I, for one, do not think Se necessary or desirable. On that score, and that i a alone, I wish to peruse the letters for this mail. TERS i written at all, they must be finished to-night, and ‘i sent into my study before nine o'clock. I will sacrifice “4 bs | some hours’ sleep looking over them.” a Nothing was said by way of assent or eet to aif? this address. The boys settled into their places, aud — ate their dinner more or less in moody silence. To i some of the more timid the position was getting on a \ level with that of foreign captivity. The chances of getting away from the island each day appeared. more — and more remote. He Of course, in time their friends would be inquiring — j + he ‘ty ot Fa i or relatives thither for a long term, receiving a full assurance that they need not be anxious about them. — Only here and there would uneasiness be create bas cA a breakin the correspondence. en But after dinner the suppressed anger found ohee in a public meeting of the boys, called by Jim Gordon. ~ They met on the quoit-ground of the ae who were — y — also in attendance. i in opening the proceedings, Jim said: — eat “Chums all, You have heard Nap’s explanation of his extraordinary tyrannical order, and for my own - part I may say that I do oo believe the reason he | i givesforitistherealone” 2 242424 4 4 42 2 4 ries of “ No more do v we.” “ % ae Aosta us Se ae} ~ 1% ae: ao =f a : Ay a4 ten