Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 25, 1922, Page 2

. SVNOFSIS I — Captain Phineas P. n- ks non grown un’around the docks San Franclsco, and from mess boy on ver ‘sieamer,” faon L. the ownership o the: steamer Maggie. ” Since cach am hu inspection promised to be the last of the old weatherbeaten vessel, Scraggs naturally has some difficulty In securing ‘& crew. When the story opens, Adelbert | ' P. Gibney, likable but erratic, a man whom nobody_but Scraggs would hire, is | e -skipper, Neils Halvorsen, a solemn swede, constitutes the fo'castle hands, and Bart McGuffey, = wastrel of the Gib- ey type, relgns in’ the engine room. CHAPTER IL—With this motley crew and bis anclent vessel, Captain S¢raggs 18 _engaged in freighting_garden truck from ‘Halfmoon bay to San Franclsco. ‘The inevitable happers, the Maggle going ashore in a fog. CHAPTER IIL.—A passing vessel hall- ing the wreck, Mr. Gibrey gets word to « towing company in San_Francisco that the ahip ashore 1s ihe Yankee Prince, with promise of a rich salvage. Two tugs succeed in pulling the Maggie into deep ter, and she slips her tow lines lnd &sts away In the fog. CHABTER IV.—Furious at the decep- tion &nctlled on them, Captains Hicks and Figherty, commanding the two tug- boats, ascertaln the identity of the “Yan- kee Prince and, fearing ridicule should the facts become known along the water {ront, determine on personal vengeance. helr mmue visit to the Maggie results in Captain Bcraggs promising to get & fiew_boller and make needed repaira to | R V.—Scraggs refuses to tul- s w’d Gibney and McGuf- va of wild conviviality Gibney Guftey are stranded . and seek umr 0l poitions on. the Maggle. They ate hostilely received, but remain. On their way to San Francisco they sight &) derellct and Glbney and McGuffey swim ‘CHAPTER VI.—The derelict proves to the. Chesapeake, richly laden, its en- ‘tire crew stricken with scurvy. 'Scraggs attempts to tow her in, but the Maggie unegual to the task and Gibney and cGuffey, alone, sall the ship to. San rancigeo, ‘their salvage money. amount- to §1,000 apiece, (Gnntimud from last issue) | CHAPTER VII. - Wlen ’Captain Scraggs, after aban- donipg. all hope of salving the bark Chesapenke, - returned- to the Maggie, the little craft reminded him of noth- dpg so-much as the ward for the In- corrigible of an insane asylum. Due to Captain Scraggs' stupidity and the géneral inefficiency of the Maggle, the néw navigating officer was of the opin- on that he hud been swindled out of his share of the salvage, while the new engineer, furious at having been en- gaged to buby. such a ruin as the Mag- &le’s boller turned out to be, blamed Seraggs’ parsimony for the loss of his share of the salvage. Therefore, both men aired with the utmost frankness thieir opinion of their employer. One ‘word borrowed another until diplomat- ic relations were severed and, in the language of the classie, they “mixed it.” They were fairly well matched, and, to the credit of Captain Scraggs | be it sald, whenever he believed him- | self to have n fighting chance Seraggs | would fight and fight well, under the Tom-cat rules of fisticuffs, Following a bloody battle in the pilot house, ke subdued the mate; following hls victory he was still war mad, so he went to the engine-room hatch and abused the engineer. As a result of the day's events, both men quit when - |4n epileptic shipmate .and was pecu- | cheg t, scowled at the king. ind stepped Inte. the warchouse for. all the world self: handsome, Bart.~ Telephone - for a -messenger boy,” and. Mr. Gibney sat ‘down .and wrote: “Scraggsy, old fanciful, we're square. Forget it and come to breakfast with us at seven- tnmorrow at the Marigold cafe, Il ovder deviled lam kidueys for three. It's alright with Bart also. “Yours, “Gib.” "This noté, dellvered to Captain Scraggs by the messenger boy, iifted the gloom from the latter's miserable | soul and sent him home with a light heart to Mrs. Scraggs. At the Mari- gold cafe pext morning he was almost touched to observe that both Gibney and McGufféy showed up arrayed in dungarees, wherefore Seraggs knew his late enemies purposed proceeding to the Maggie Jmmediately after breakfast and working in the engine room all day Sunday. Such action, when he knew hoth gentlemen to be the pos- sessors of -wealth far beyond the dreams of avarice, bordered so close- ly on the miraculous that Scraggs made a mentul resolve to play fair in the future—at least as fair as the limits of his cross-grained nature would per- mit. " He was so cheerful and happy that McGuffey, taking advantage of | the situation, argued him into some minor repairs to the engine. About nine o'clock, as Mr. Gibney was on his way to the' Marigold €Cafe for brenkfast, he was mildly inter- ested, while passing the Embarcadero warehcuse, to note the presence of fully a dozen seedy-looking gentlemen of undoubted Hebralc -antecedents, congregated in a circle just outside the warehcuse door. There was an air of suppressed excitement' about this -group of Jews. that srouseyi Mr. Gib- ney's curiosity; so he decidéd to cross over and investigate, being of the opin- lon that possibly one of their number had fallen in'a fit. He had omce had liarly prnrt in the hunll[ng of such cases, Now, If the gremr-r porimn of Mr. Gihney's eventful career had not been spent nt se, he' wotla have known, by the red flag that flonted over:the llOOl‘, that a pubBic auction was about to take place, g.nd that the group of He- hrew l(ellllelm'n constituted an organi- zntion knoy:n ‘as dlie Forty Thieves, whose busigess.it was to dominate the Mdding at all auctions, frighten off, or buy off, or ‘outbid,all eompetitors, and eventually gather unto themselves, at their own tigures, al} goods offered for sale. In the. center of the group Mr. Gib- ney ngticed a tall, lanky individual, evidently the leader, .who was issuing Instructions In a low voice to his henclfmen. This individual, though Mr. ‘Gibney did not know it, was the King of the. Forty Thieves. As Mr. Gibng2y 1uffed fiito viely the king eyed him with suspicion. Observing thig; Mr. Gibney threw out his magnificent as it he owned it. Jn oldish man with giasses—the riuctioneer—was semted on’ a,box mak- Ing figures In a notebook. Him Mr. Cibney addressed. the Maggle was tled up at Juckson street wharf and once more Captain Seraggs was helpless. In his extrem- ity, he wished he hadn't been so hard on Mr. Glbney and McGuffey, for he renlized. he could never hope to get: them back until their salvage money should be spent. Godless and wholly irreclaimable as Mr. Gibney and Mr. McGuffey might have been and doubtless were, each Ppossessed in bounteous measure the sweéetest of human attributes, to-wit: & soft, kind heart and a forgiving spir- it. Creatures of impulse both, they found it absolutely impossible to nour- ish-a grudge against Captain Scruggy, when, upon returning to Scab Johnuy’s boarding ‘ house, their host handed them a grubby note from their enemy. It was short and sweet and sounded: quite siucere; Mr. Gibney read it uloud: “'On Board the Maggie, Saturday night, “Dear Friends: Lam sorry. You hurt me awful with your kidden when you took the (hesa- peake away from me.. To er is human but_to forgive Is devine, After whar I.done 1 don’t expect you two to come back to work ever but for God's suke dor’'t give me the dead face when we meat agin. . Remember we been”ship- niafes once. : & “P. P, Scraggs." “Why, “the pore ol' son of a horse thiér,” Mr. Glbney murmured, much moved ‘at this profound nabasement. “Of course we forgive him. It ain't manly to hold a grouch after the cul- prit has ‘paid his fair price for hje sins, By an' large, T got a hunch, ‘Bart, that old Scraggsy's had his les-, son. for once.” “If'you_can forgive him, I can, Gib.” #WVell, he's certalnly_cleaned him- . “What's all this here?” he:inquired, | Jerking his thumb over his shoulder at the group. “It’s an old horsed sale,” replied the auctioneer, without looking up. Mr. Gibney bdrightened. He glanced around for the stock: In trade, but ob- serving none conchsded that the old horses wauld be Ted in, ore at a time, through 'a small door in the resr of the warchouse. Like most sajlors, Mr. Gibney had a passlan for horseback riding, and in a_sphdt of adVenture he reshlveki to acadiaint himself with the i andl outs of ahi old horse sale. “How much mlghr 4 man have to ‘give for one of the critters?” he asked. “And are they worth a whoop after you get them?” “Twenty-five cents up,” was the an- swer. “You go it blitwl at an old horse sale, as a rule, Perhayps you get some- thing that’s worthless, and lhen\unln you may get saething that has hegps of value, and, perhaps vou' anly:pay half n dollar Tor it. It all depends on he bidding. T once soldl an old horse to a-chap anpd he took! ityhgme mm opened it upgand whatt d’\e suppm he found insi{le?” “Bots,” replied Mr. Gibney, who prided himseRt on beld§ | ’wme(hlng ot a vetérinntied®, ‘having spent a few months of W' youth agound a Mvery stable, (Continaed in Neat [ssue) NOTICE Applications will' bei received by the undersigned to be opened at a regular meecting of the City Council to be held on Monday, Mav 1. 1972, for City Engineer to be hired by the day or month. The Citiy Council re- serves the right to reject any or all applications, Ben\ld]l, Minn. April 22, 1922, Made To Your o Measurer [ F OT alone in quality of texture, expert fitting and pleasing patterns are our Suits made to your measure, but the prices you find will also measure up tp your greatest expectation. Your satisfaction in dress can only be realized when the Suit you wear was made for you by competent tailors to satisfy your style, your pattern and purse. 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