Chapter 4

XXV. Death Eddy

XXVI. Hazen

XXVII. She Speaks

XXVIII. Fifteen Minutes

XXIX. "There is One Way"

XXX. Not Yet

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

A young girl sitting on a low stool by the window mending a rent in her skirt (_Frontispiece_)

"I cut them letters there fifteen years ago. Now I'm to cut 'em out"

"A slight, dark form steals from the shadows and lays a hand on the stooping man's shoulder"

"Cormorants!" escaped his lips. "They look for a feast of death, but they will be disappointed"

THE CHIEF LEGATEE