Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, April 27, 1922, Page 2

] H | 4 | | | ARt o PAGE TWO FIFITTVI® F=TRgaImY, TVRT FGH fry wrerdorfimoncy 4785 THE BEMIDI1 DATLY PIONEER ‘0 THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1922 8YNOPSIS. 1. — Captain 'Phineas P. Scraggs_has grown up around the docks of San Francisco, and from mess boy on & river steamer, risen “sihe "22‘3."?3.’ of the steamer Maggie. ince - nual inspection promised to be the last of the old weatherbeaten vessel, Scraggs naturally has some diffictlty in securing & crew. When the story opens, Adelbert P. Gibney, likable but erratic, a man whom nobody but Scraggs would hire, is | the skipper, Nells Halvorsen, a solemn Swede, constitutes the fo'castle hands, and Bart McGuffey, a wastrel of the Glb- ney type, reigns in the engine room. CHAPTER II.—With this ‘motley crew and his anclent vessel, Captain Scraggs is engaged in frelghting garden truck from Halfmoon bay to San Francisco, The inevitable happers, the Maggle going ashore in a fog. CHAPTER IIL—A passing vessel hall- Ing the wreck, Mr. Gibney gets word to a towing company in_San_Francisco that the -ship ashore is ihe Yankee Prince, with promise of a rich salvage. Two tugs succeed In_ pulling the Maggle into deep water, and she siips her tow lines and gets away in the fog. CHAPTER IV.—Furious at the decep- tion’ practised on them, Captains Hicks and Flaherty, commanding the two tug- boats, ascertaln the identity of the “Yan- kee Prince” and, fearing ridicule should the facts become known along the water front, determine on personal vengeance. Thelr hostile visit to the Maggie results fn Captain Scraggs promising to get a new boller and make needed repairs to the steamer. CHAPTBR V.—Scraggs refuses to ful- Al his promises and Gibney and McGuf- fey ‘“strike.” With marvelous luck, Scraggs ships a fresh crew. At the end ot a few days of wild conviviality Gibney and McGuffey are stranded and seek their old positions on the Maggie, They are hostilely received, but remain. On their way to San Francisco they sight = derelict and Gibney and McGuffey swim o CHAPTER VI.—The derelict proves to be the Chesapeake, richly laden, its en- tire_crew stricken with scurvy. 'Scraggs attempts to tow her in, but the Maggle .18 unequal to the task and Gibney and cGuftey, alone, sall the ship to San Francisco, their salvage money amount- ing to $1,000 apiece. JCHAPTER VIIL--Independently rich, our two-adventurers still have a kindly feel- ing for the Maggle, and, his crew hav- ing ‘deserted. him, Captain Scraggs 1 duces them to return. At an “old horse’ sale_ the three purchase two mysterlou : TR e instead, two dead Chinamen. CHAPTER VIIIL. — Scraggs seeks to “double cross” his two associates, but Mr. Gl satisfactory financial settlement with the Chinese company to whom the bodies have been consigned, leaving Scraggs out in the cold. ‘ fbney outwits him and makes a (Continued from. last issue) | CHAPTER IX. Even after allowing for the expendl- tures on the engine weighing heavily on Captain Scruggs, that individual continued morose and more than ever inclined to be sarcastic. Mr. Gibney commented on the fact to Mr. McGuf- fey. “He's troubled financlally, Gib."” “Well, you know who troubled him, don't you, Bart?” “I mean about the cost o' them re- pairs in the engine room, Unless he can come through in thirty days with the Lalance he owes, the boller people are goin' to libel the Maggle to protect thelr claim.” Mr. Gibney arched his bushy eye- ) PETER B KYNE COPA'R IGPfi'i BY! menaced Mr. McGuffey with a rigld index finger. “Bart,” he 'demanded, “did you loan Scraggsy some money?" The honest McGuffey hung his head. “A little bikt,” he replied childishly. “What d’ye call a little bit?” “Three hundred dollars, Gib.” “Secured?” “He gimma his note at eight per cent. The savin’s bank only pays four.” i “Is the note secured by endorse- ment or collateral?” “No.” “Humem-m! Strange you didn’t say nothin’ to me about this till I hac¢ to pry it out o’ you, Bart.” “Well, Scraggsy was feelin’ so dog- goned Blue—" “The truth,” Mr. Gibney insisted firmly, “the truth, Bart.” “Well, Sceaggsy asked me not to say anythin to you.about it.” “Sure. He knew I'd kill the deal. He knew bettern to try to nick me for three hundred bucks on his danged, worthless note. Bart, why'd you do it?” “Oh, h—Il, Gib, be a good feller,” poor McGuffey pleaded. “Don’t be’ too hard on ol' Scraggsy.” “We're discussin’ you, Bart. 'Pears to me you've sort o’ lost confidence in your old shipmate, ain’t you? 'Pears that way to me when you act sneaky Hke.” McGuffey bridled.. “I ain’t a sneak.” “A rose by any other name'd be just as sweet,” Mr. Gibney quoted. “You poor, misguided simp. If you ever see that three hundred dollars again you'll be a lot older'n you are now. However, that ain’t none o’ my business. The fact remains, Bart, that you conspired with Scraggsy to keep things away from me, which shows you ain't the man I thought you were, so from now on you go your way an’ Il go mine.” “I got a right to do as I blasted plguse pvith my money,” McGnffey de-+ fended hotly. “I ain’t no child to be lectured to.” “Considerin’ the fact that you ° wouldn’t have had the money to lend If it hadn't been for me, I allow I'm in- sulted when you use the sald money to give n1d an’ comfort to my enemy. I'm through.” McGuffey, smothered in guilt, felt nevertheless that he had to stand by his guns, so to speak. “Stay through, if you feel like it,” he retorted, “Where d'ye get that chatter? Am't I free, white,.an’ twenty-one year old?” Mr. Gibney was really hurt. “You poor boob,” he murmured. “It's the old game o' settin’ a beggar on horsa- back un' seein’ him rice to the devil, or slippin’. a gold ring In a plg's nose. An' 1 figured you was my friend!” “Well, ain't 17" “Fooey! Fooey! Don't talk to me. You'd sell out your own mother.” “Gib, you tryin’ to pick a fight with me “No, but I would if I thought I wouldn't git a footrace Instead,” Gib- ney rejoined scathingly. “Cripes, brows. “How do you know?" he de- manded. “He was a-tellln’ me,” Mr. McGuffey admitted weakly. “Well, he wasn't a-tellin’ me.” Mr. Gibney's tones were ominous; he glared at his friend suspiciously as from the Maggle's cabin Issued forth Scraggsy's voice raised in song. “Hello! The old boy's thermome- fer's gone up, Bart, Listen at him. ‘Ever o thee he's fondly dreamin'. Somethin's busted the spell an' I'll bet a cooky It was ready cash." He 17/AR\Y _— et =_=_—a——— "Il.rt," He Demanded, “Did You Loan what a double-crossin’ I been handed! Honest, Bart, when it comes to that sort o work Scraggs is in his infancy. You sure take the cake.” “I ain't got the heart to clout yeu an’ make you eat them words,” Mr. McGuffey declared, sorrowfully. “You mean you ain't got the guts,” Mr. Gibney corrected him. “Bart, I got your number. Goodbye.” Mr. McGuffey had a wild impulse to cast himself upon the Gibney neck and weep, but his honor forbade any such weakness, So he invited Mr. Gibney to betake himself to a region several degrees hotter than the Mag- gle's engine room; then, because he feared to linger and develop a senti- mental weakness, he turned his back abruptly and descended to the sald engine room. On his part, Adelbert P. Gibney en- tered the cabin and glared long and menacingly at Captain Scraggs. “I'll have my time,” he growled presently. “Give it to me an' give it quick.” The very Intonation of his voice warned Scraggs that the pressat was uot a time for argument or trifling. Silently he pald Mr, Gibney th2 money due him; in equal silence the navi- gating officer went to the pilot house, unscrewed his framed certificate from the wall, packed it with his few be- longings. and departed for Scab John- ny's boarding house. “Hello,” Scab Johnny saluted him at his entrance, “Quit the Maggie?" Mr. Gibney nodded. “Want a trip to the dark blue?”’ “Lead me to it,” mumbled Mr. Gib- ne “It'Il cost you twenty dollars, Gib. Chief mate on the Rose of Sharon, hound for the Galapagos islands seal- ing.” “I'll take it, Johnny.” Mr. Gibney threw over a twenty-dollar bill, went to his room, packed all of his belong- Scraggsy Some Money?” ings, paid, his Bl to Seab Jahnny, and ‘WIthIA ~ the ™ liour ™ Was aboard™ the schooner Rose of Sharon. Two hours later they towed out with the tide. Poor McGuffey was stunned when he heard the news that night from Scab Johnny. When he retatled the information to Scraggs next morning, Scraggs was equally perturbed. He guessed that. McGuffey and Gibney had quarreled and he had the poor Judgment to ask McGuffey the cause of the row. Instantly, McGuffey informed him that that was none of his dad- fetched business—and the Incident was closed. - The three months shat followed wer the most harrowing of McGuffey's life. Captain Scraggs knew his engineer would not resign while he,, Scraggs, owed him three hundred ddllars wherefore he was not too partfculpr! to put a bridle on his tongue when' things appeared to go wrong. McGuf- fey longed to kill him, but dared not. When, eventually, the railroad had been extended sufficiently far down the coast to enable the farmers to haul their goods to the railroad in trucks, the Maggie automatically went out of the green-pea trade; simultaneously, Captain Scraggs’' note to McGuffey fell due and the engineer demanded payment. . Scraggs de- murred, pleading poverty, but Mr. Mec- Guffey assumed such a threatening at- titude that reluctantly Scraggs paid him a hundred and fifty dollars on ac- count, and McGuffey extended the bal- ance one year—and quit. “See that you got that hundred and fifty an’ the interest in your jeans the next time we meet,” he warned Scraggs as'he went overside. Time passed. For a month the Mag- gie plied regularly between Bodega bay and San Francisco in an endeavor to work up some business in farm and dairy produce, but a gasoline schooner cut in on the run and declared a rate war, whereupon the Maggie turned her blunt nose riverward and for a briet period essayed some towing and gener- al freighting on the Sacramento and San Joaquin. It was unprofitable, however, and at last Captain Scraggs was forced to lay his darling little Maggie up -and take a job as chief officer of the ferry steamer Encinab, plying between San Francisco and Oak- land. In the meantime, Mr. McGuf- fey, after two barren months “on the beach,” landed a job as second assist- ant on a Standard Oil tanker running to the west coast, while thrifty Neils Halvorsen Invested the savings of ten years In a bay scow known as the Wil- lie and Annle, arrogated to himself the title of captain, and proceeded to freight hay, grain and paving stones from Petaluma, The old joyous days of the green- pea trade were gone forever, and many a night, as Captain Scraggs paced the deck of the ferryboat, watching the ferry tower loom into view, or the scattered lights along the . Alameda Shore, he thought longingly of the old Mnaggie, Jnid gway, perhaps forever, And slowly rotting in the muddy waters of the Sacramento.. And he' thought of Mr. Gibney, too, away off under the tropic stars, leading the cgre-free life of a real sailor at last, and of Bar- tholomew McGuftey, imbibing “pulque” in the “cantina” of some disreputable cafe. Captain Scraggs never knew how badly he was going to miss them both until they were gone, and he had nobody to fight with except Mrs. Scraggs and when Mrs, Scraggs (to quote Captain Scraggs) ipped her cable” in her forty-third year Captain Scraggs felt singularly lonesome and I a mood to accept eagerly any deviliry that r.ight offer, Upon a night, which happened to be Scraggs' night off, and when he was particularly lonely and inclined to drown his sorrows in the Bowhead saloon, he was approached by Scab Johnny, and invited to repair to the latter's dingy office for the purpose of discussing what Scab Johnny guard- edly referred to as a “proposition.” Upon arrival at the oftice, Captain Scraggs was introduced to a small, fierce-looking gentleman of tropical ap- pearance, who owned to the nawe of Don Manuel Garela Lopez. Scab John- ny first pledged Captain Scraggs to absolute secrecy, and made him swear by the!honor of his mother and the bones of his father not to divulge a word of what he was about to tell him. Scab Johnny was short and to the point. He stated that, as Captain Scraggs was doubtless aware, if he perused the daily papers at all, there was a revolution raging in Mexico. His friend, Senor Lopez, représented the under-dogs In the disturbance, and was anxious to secure a ship and a nervy sea capiain to land a shipment of arms in Lower California. It ap- peared that at a sale of condemned army goods held at the arsenal at Benicin, Senor Lopez had, through Scab Johnny, purchased two thousand single-shot* Springfield rifles that had been retired when the militia regiments took up the Kyag. The Krag in turn having been replaced by the modern magazine Springfield, the old single- shot Springfields, with one hundred thousand rounds of 45-70 ball cart- ridges, lad been sold to the! lighest bidder. In addition to the small arms, Lopez had at present in a watehpuse three’ machine guns and four 3-inch (ke kind of guns generally designated s o’ “Jacknss battery,” for the reason that they can be taken down and trans- ported over rough country on mules) —together with a supply of ammuni- tion for same. “Now, then,” Scah Johnny contin- | ued, “the job that confronts us is to get these munitions down to our friends In Mexico. If we're caught | sneakin® 'em into Mexico we'll spend the rest of our livex in a federal peni- tentiary for bustin’ the neutrality laws, All them rifics an’ the ammunition is cased an' in my basement at the pres- ent wmoment—and - the .government breech-loading pleces of field artillery | “The Job That Confronts Us Is to Get These Munitions Down to Our Friends in Mexico.” agents knows ‘they're theré] But that ain’t troubling me. I rent the saloon uext door an’ I'll cut a hole through the wall from my cellar into the saloon cellar, carry -'em through the saloon into the backyard, an’ out into the alley half a block away. I'm watched, but T got the watcher spotted—only he don’t know it. Our ouly trouble is a ship. How about the Maggie?” “I'd have to spend about two thous- and dollars on her to put her in condi- tion for the voyage,” Scraggs replied. “Can do,” Scab Johnny answered himn briefly, and Senor.Lopez nodded ac- quiescence. “You discharge on a light- er at Descanso bay about twenty miles belew Ensenada. What'll it cost us?” “Ten thousand dollars, in addition to fixin’ up the Maggie. Half down and half on delivery. I'm riskin’ my hide an’ my ticket an’ I got to be well paid for it.” Again Senor Lopez nodded. What did he care? It wasn’t his money: “T'll furnish you with our own crew Just before you sall,” Scab Johnny con- tinued. “Get,busy.” “Gimme a thousand for preliminary expen: " Scraggs demanded. “After that Speed is my ‘middle name.” The charming Serior Lopez produced the money in crisp new bills and, pér- fect gentleman that’he was, demanded no receipt. ~As @' matter of fact, Seraggs would not liave given him 'one. The two weeks that followed were busy, ones;for Capjgls: Scraggs. . The day after his intérview with ‘Scab Johnny and Don Manuel he engaged an engineer and a deck hand and went up the Sacramento to bring the Mag- gie down to San Francisco. Upon her arrival she. was hauled out on the marine ways at Oakland creek, cleaned, caulked, and<some new cop- per sheathing put on her bottom. She was also given a. dash of black paint, had her engines and boilers thorough- ly overhauled and repaired, and shipped a new propeller that would add at least a knot to her speed. Al- so, she had her stern rebuilt. And when everything was ready, she slipped down to the Black Diamond coal bunk- ers and took on enbugh fuel to cai- ry her to San Pedro; after which she steamed across the bay to San Francisco and tied up at Fremont street wharf. The cargo came ddtvn in boxes, vurl- ously labeled. There were “agricul- tural implements,” a “cream scparat- or,” a “windmill,” and half a dozen “sewing-machines,” in addition to a considerable number of kegs alleged to contain nails. Most of it came down after” five o'clock fn the afternoon after the wharfinger had left the dock, and as nothing but a disordered brain would have suspected the steamer Mag- gle of an atremipt to break the neutral- ity laws, the entire cargo wus gotten aboard safely and without a jot of suspicion attaching to the vessel. When all was in readiness, (‘upml'n Scraggs Incontinently “fired” his deck- hand and engineer and inducted aboard a new crew, carefully selected for their filibuster virtues by Scab Johnny him- self. Then while the new engineer got up steawm, Captain Scraggs went up to Scab Johnny's office for his final in- structions and the balance of the first instalment due him. Briefly, his instructions were as fol- lows: . Upon arrival off Point Dume on the southern California coast, he was to stand in close to Dume cove under cover of darkness and show two green lights on the masthead. A man would come alongside presently in a small boat, and climb aboard. This man would be the supercargo and the confidential envoy of the insurrecto Junta in Los Angeles. Captain Scraggs was to look to this man for orders and to obey him implicitly, as upon this depended: the success of the expedi- tion. This agent of the insurrecto forces would pay him the balance of tive thousand dollars due him immedi- ately upon discharge of the cargo at Descanse bay. There was a body of insurrecto troops encamped at Megano rancho, a wile from the beach, and they would have a barge and small Toats in readiness to lighter the cargo, Scab Johnny explained that he had promised the crew double wages and a bonus of a hundred dollars each for the trip. 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