Evening Star Newspaper, September 23, 1924, Page 15

THE OWL’S HOUSE A Thrilling Adventure Story' By Crosbie Garstin Copyru;n;. 1924, by Frederick A. Stokes Co. __(Continued from Yesterday's Star) TTOh, wid en, were e? So you Xknawn en well. And horse leaders?” “There's seven Romanies and, three ©f us up to farm.” 4 !=Yor knaw the country, s'pose?”’ “Day or night like my own yard, King Nick turned on Jacky's George, a faint smile curling the cor- ners of his mouth. “What do ‘e say now, George? Can this young man £ind ‘the horses, think you? “Ess, s'pose.” *Do 'e trust en?” A nod. “Then what more Eay, my dear?” The fisherman scratched his beard, ‘breathed heavily through his nostrils and said, “All right.” King Nick rose to his feet, rubbing his hands together. “*Now let Jacob rejoice and Israel be glad' That's settled. Welcome Dack to the fold, George, my old soul. *This is my brother that was dead but is alive again’ Soon's you give me the word the Romany is agree- able I'll slip ‘e the cargoes, so shall the poor tinner be comforted at a reasonable price and the Lord be praised with cymbals—'yea, with trumpets aleo and shawms.' Gather in all the young men and maldens, George, that we ask a blessing on our labors! Fetch 'em in to once, for T can feel the word of the Lord de- scending upon me!" * Xk X % Dawn peering through bottle panes of Jacky's George's Kiddly- wink saw the entire Baragwanath family packed shoulder to shoulder singing lustily, while before them, on a chair, stood a benevolent old xgen- tleman in black beating time with one of John Wesley's hymnals, white halr wreathing his head like a silver glory. “Chant, my dear beautie: he cried. “Oh, be cheerful! Be jubilant! Lift up your voices unto the Lord! ‘Awake up, my glory! Awake lute and harp” Now all together! ‘When passing thwough the watery deep 1 ask in faith His promised aid: The waves an awful dlstance keep And shrink from my devoted bead. CHAPTER XV. dowr ®arler than ¥ The 10th of De- cember saw his smoke-grimed wis- wams erected in the little wood, the cloaks and scarves of the Romany women making bright blots of color ‘ave 'e got to the Pyramus came wsual that y. |among the somber trees, bronze babies rolling among bronze leaves. Ortho was right. The gypsy chief had been hard hit and was open to any - scheme -for. recouping his for- tunes. After conshderable haggling he consented to a fee of & shillings per horse per run—leaders thrown in—which was a shilling more than Ortho had intended to give him and 2 shillings more than he would have taken if pressed. The cavalry had not arrived as yet, and Ortho did not think it politic to inform Pyramus they were expected. There were the makings in him of a good business man. The first run was dated for tho night of January 3, but the heavy ground swell was rolling in and the lugger lay off until the evening of the Gth. King Nick arrived on .the morning of the 3d and stepped quietly into the kitchen of the Admiral An- son’as the Baragwanath family were sitting down to breakfast, having walked by night from Germoe. The meal finished, he gave melodious thanks to heaven, sent for Ortho, asked -what arrangements had been made for the landing, condemned them root and branch and substi- tuted an entirely fresh lot. That done, he rode off to St. Just to sur- vey the proposed pack route, taking Ortho with him. He was back again by 8 o'clock at night and immediately held a praver meeting in the Kiddlywink, preaching on Lo, he thirsteth even as a hart thirsteth after the water brooks"—a vindication of the gin trath nd passing on to describe 1s of hell with such graphic I that one Cove woman fainted another had hysterics. The run came off without a hiteh tiwo nights later. Ortho had his horses loaded up and away by -9 o'clock. At 1:30 a crowd of anthusi- astic diggers, all armed with clubs wers stripping his load and secreting it in an old mine working on the outskirts of St. Just. He was home in bed before dawn. Fifty-six casks of mixed gin, claret ‘and brandy they carried that night, mot to men- tion five hundredweight @f tea. January 17 he carried M3 casks, a bale of silk and a hundredweight of tea to Pendeen, dumping some odds and ends outside Gwithinn as he passed by. And so it went on. The consumption of cheap spirits mong the miners was enormous John Wesley, to whose credit can bhe placed almost the whole moral Te- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. '"MUTT AND JEFF WTF- ™ Be S0 IMPORTANT THAT A BIG €D\THR SENDS FOR ME! He SAYS He WANTS ™ GGT SoME Dobe on THE POLITICAL SITUAT(OA OF THIS generation of the Cornish tinner, de- scribes them as “those who feared not God nor regarded man'; accuses them of wrecking ships and murder- ing the survivors, and of taking their pleasure in “hurling, at which limbs are often broken; fighting, drinking and all other manner of wickedness.” In Winter their pastimes were re. striced to fighting and drinking—prin- ipally drinking—in furtherance of which Ortho did a roaring trade. Be- tween the beginning of January and the end of March he ran an ave e of five landings a month without any one #0 much as wagging a finer at him. ‘The dragoons rived at Christmas, byt instead of a regiment two troops only appeared, and they speedily declared a policy of “live and let live. Their com- manding officer, Capt. Hambro. had not returned to his native land after years of hard campaigning to spend his nights galloping down blind byways at the be- hest of a civillan riding officer. 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AND KNOWING THAT MuTT AND T TOURSED THROUGH €very ITATE HE WANTS ME TOTELL HiM THe [ RESULT OF MYy oeuwancms. You ‘MEAN- feTy-ewery? Nick's warning that the soldlers might easily be fooled, but they were by no means so easily frightened. Tho trade absorbed this lesson, and there we more regrettable incidents that season. Ortho was satisfied with hie Winter's work beyond all expectations. It was & common tenet among free traders of those days that one cargo saved would pay for two lost, and Ortho, w0 far from losing a single cargo, had only lost five tubs in all—three stove in transshipping and two when the mule carrying them fell into a pit. Everybody was satls- fled. The district was flooded with cheap liquor. All the Covers in turn assist- ed in the boatwork and so picked up money in the off meason, when they needed it most. Pyramus, with his animals in constant employment, did s0 well that he delayed his northern trip for a month. The only person (with tha excep- tlon of his majesty's collector of cus- toms) who was not entirely pleased was Eli. In defrauding the revenue he had no scruples whatever, but it Interfered with his farming. This smuggling was all very fine and re- munerative, but it was a mere side line. Bosula was his life work, his being. If he and Bohenna had to be up all night horse leading they could not be awake all day. The bracken was creeping In again. However, they were making money, heaps of it; there was no denying that. ‘With the distinctive dislike of a seaman for a landsman, and vice versa, neither Jacky's George nor Pyramus would trust each other. The amphibious Ortho was the neces- 'sary link between them and as such paid out more or lest what he thought fit—as has bean the way with middie- men since the birthday of the world. He pald Jacky's George one and six per cask for landing and Pyramus three shillings for packing (they went two to a horse), making a profit of ten shillings clear himself. EIi, the only person in the valley who could read,, write or handle figures, kept the aceounts and kpew that at the end of March they were three casionally—when he had no other ap- pointment ‘and the weather was pass- able—he mounted his stalwarts and made a spectacular drive—this as a sop to the cvllector. But he never came westwards; the going was too rough, and, bedides, St. Just was but small potatoes compared with big mining dis- tricts to the east. For every cask landed at Monks Cove, King Nick and his merry men landed 20 either at Prussia Cove, Porthleven, Hayle or Portreath—sometimes at all four places simultaneously. Whenever Capt. Hambro's troopers climbed into their saddles and took the road to Long Rock, & simple but effective aystem of signals flashed ahead of them so that they found very little. There was one pasty affair on Mara- zlon Beach. Owing to a misunderstand- ing the Cavalry came upon a swarm of tinners in process of making a landing. The tinners (who had broached a cask and were full of spirits in more senseq than one) foolishly opencd hostilities. The result was two troopers wounded, six miners killed—bearing out King hundred and forty pounds to the good. He asked Ortho where the money was. “Hid up the valley,” said his broth- er. “Put away where the devil him- self wouldn't find it.” “What are you hiding it like that for? Eli asked. “Mother,” said Ortho. rip-roar she had must have nigh baled her bank dry and now she's looking for more. I think she've got a notion who bubbled her last year and she's aiming to get a bit of her own back. She knows I've got money and she's spying on me all the time. I'd tell-you where it is only I'm afeard you'd let it out without mean- ing to. I'm too sly for her—but you, you're like a pane of glas: ‘Wholesale smuggling finished with the advent of Spring. The shorten- ing nights did not provide sufficient cover for big enterprises; dragoons and preventive men had not the same objections to being out of their beds in Summer as In Winter, and, more- “That last FIFTY PER CEN! GONNA VOTE EoR DAVS AND BLFTY PER CenT ARE GONMA Vots WAGAINAT CAL AND LA FoLleTTes over, the demand for fallen to a minimum. This was an immense relief to Eli, Wwho now gave himself heart and soul to the farm, haling Bohenna with him; but two disastrous seasons had impaired Ortho's vaunted enthusiasm for “the good old sofl,” and he was absent most of the week, working up connections for next Winter's car- go-running—so he told Eli—but it was noticeable that his business ap- pointments usually coincided with any sporting events held in the Hundred, and at hurling matches, buli-baitings, cock-fights and pony-races he became almost as famillar a figure as his mother had been, backing his fancy freely and with not infallible judg-\ ment. However, he paid his debts scrupulously and with good grace and, though he drank but little him- self, was most generous in providing, gratls, refreshment for others. He acMeved strong local popularity, a priceless asset to a man who lives by flouting the law. 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