beautiful face was turned up to them with triumph in every feature. She had seen the struggle going on in her two intended victims; if she could but gain to within whispering distance of either of them, surely she would never let them escape her.

“Come, take me on board, my Rupert. I have a secret to tell thee, but thee alone!” she cried, and spurted swiftly, gaining abreast of the main-chains.

But the eyes of Venner and Pearse were fixed in astonishment upon the tall cliff they had left; their eyes stared amazedly, and they stood like statues, hearing none of her seductive words.

“What do ye see?” she demanded, frowning up at them.

A score of sharp splashes in the water around the schooner