The Key West Citizen Newspaper, March 2, 1938, Page 5

WEDNESDAY, M: EMPIRE FOR A LADY: SYNOPSIS: Carrying a gun- cargo for Rajah Mantusen, we en- counter a Dyak revolt against the Malays on Sumantang island. Mantusen blames -my uncle, James Clyde, and is holding him prisoner until | (Paul Thorne) can bring our fortified ship, the Linkang, up-river to aid the Ma- lays. Christine Forrester, a young English girl, is behind the war, and supplying the Dyak guns. She refuses to call off her sharpshoot- ers so I can rescue Clyde, and even worse, the Linkang cannot cross the bar. I’m going to cap- ture her yawl, the Avon! Chapter 20 Only A Miracle ND then—Clyde came. The perpetual, brain-de-| stroying beating in the jungle had died down a little, in honor of the middle of the night; and from under it now came a faint, thin) signal from the shore. frozen for a moment, unable to believe. But it sounded again, drifting across the water on the breeze with an eerie distinctness. This time it was unmistakable. That thin, two-noted piping was from the bosun’s pipe Clyde carried. “Starboard watch! longboat! Smartly now, smartly!” The bosun came stumbling to his feet. “What's the matter? What's up?” “Wake those men up! Get ‘em into the boat!” Surprise gagged him. He stam- mered as he muttered an order to I ‘stood | TE KEY WEST CITIZEN ts We were out into moonlig! , and him looking at |. “Fool!” he | fool!” “Yes, sir.” We had to a Jacob’s lad- |den to get Clyde up over the Lin- kang’s side, where ordinarily h | would have swarmed it like a gib- | bon. | but it was enougi. Part was so d that it see: Jit must |but no important muscies se jto have been cut. I time picking se: and swabbing it a: and after that it took |to get it sewed up to si | fingers were clumsy with geon’s needle, but I tied 17 s where perhaps fe jdone. And I should Into the |“ him down to th with three or four M. and a little lamp. Th | not as well scre lgle rifles as Mant presently a single ing. Out of the a sleepy seaman, then stood star- | ing as if he could not ‘believe that | - the man. had obeyed.. After a mo- ment, though, he went wavering down the deck, hunting ‘out the} Test of thé men. We piled ints the long boat, ahd | as the oars began to find them-| selves, I headed straight in-shore | —<cannon tube and all. Because of its load, the boat shipped a little water now, even in tne small rip- pe of the bay. Here on the sur- ace I thought I could place the whistle as it came again. But for a long time it did not come, until I was beginning to doubt my own cars. — Then at last, as my steering wa- vered, it sounded once more. dis- tinct and clear. omething clicked through the ‘wing of the oars as the men heard that. It wasn't a change in stroke, but more as if a deeper pulse had suddenly begun to beat, | driving us forward. .I swung the} nese'of the boat to port. Every man in the boat must jiave known the chances we were taking, especially loaded as we were. That signal, Clyde’s own whistle though it might be, could ehsily have been the baiting of a trap. I got hold of one of the six- shooters, stuck it in the front of | ty belt, and strained my eyes for} the’ first sign of a prau hiding in the black Sar of shadow on the| becch. There is no surf in Balingong | pression. that filled der, and that was the sniping rifle. ‘Work To Do’ |H= told me, in tor dulity, that | working with knew how to shoot. son the rifle was not |killed, but was picking on the light. Over and over, during the first half of the night, that rifle shot out the lamp. At first the Malays thought it was an a dent, but when the third or fo |lamp was broken they beg: | get furious. Somebo with them, not ev In the end the Malays began to jshow nervousness—very close, with thom, to real fear. They gave up the light. My uncle watched his chance, and after a long time he was able |to get his hands on a jar, and he cracked down a pretty dai confusion that one Fs | been shot. In this confusion was able to drop off thi | had stripped shirt and his trousers high on his thighs, and bay. I put her in as close as I dared, | twisted a turban out of a rag of then ‘turned and began coasting the shallows. Test oars,” { said at last. “I'm going ‘astiore. Stand on and off for alittle bit, and keep me in sight as | Jong <s you can. If there’s any sound of something going wrong, con't trv to foliow me. Pull out to clecr water, ana get ready to make @ running fight back to the ship.” We were very close in to the} shallows now: any moment I ex- pected to hear the keel find the/ bo! ttom. I was getting ready to/ his shirt; and what with the shad- jows and the confusion of the alarm, he dodged his way to the low walls and got outside. Onc into the jungle he had ma to lose himself, and a matter of avoiding the D: He was interested now only i what we were going to do next, jand resented my persistent ques- tions. “It’s only a miracl “that you're alive.” He exploded at me. le.” 1 said, “Damn it, step into the water, when sud-|if it's any satisfaction to you, I cenly there was a splashing close | was killed outright at the first beside us in the shadow, and a|Move. That's why I'm not here shape loomed waist-deep. Some | yet. Forget it, will you? We've got of the men gave a spasmodic jerk | work to do.” on their oars, swinging the ee And then the figure spo! “Damn it, do I have to Tras my own boat all night?” I half dragged him aboard as/| he floundered over the transom. Under my hands I felt a sticky clotting of blood. “You're wounded, sir!” “Mind your own business. Star: rd oars! Drive this: thing, back to the ship!” Nasty: Kris Cut FoR a while ‘fiejther $f us said anything. The men were pull- ing hard, giving the sw evety-| thing they had to get ‘that un- fodly beach. Through the sound of the oars we could hear Clyde breathing hard, in long shaking Rasps; but he got his breath. at Jast and lost me. “What is this cannon tube doing in the boat?” “Sir, there isn’t enough water to get the Linkang over the bar. So I was getting ready to—I fig- ured the best thing to do was—I was all set to—” “All set to what?” he demanded angrily. “If you mean to tell me} you were going to disobey evet order I gave you, and land guns—” “No, sir. “Well, then, what the hell?” “Sir, the Avon can cross the bar. I was going to take the Avon.” “Those people a; to that?” “No, sir. I wasn't going to ask them.” no time in laying into/| | He was sure that he knew what Mantusen would do—and do im- mediately. Mantusen would rush the river with his praus, in an ef- fort to reach and take the Lin- kang. Once in possession of the cane its rail crowded with ien,. Mantusen could whip all if = yaks on.earth, and he knew iy “Now that. ‘the. “tiriatcountable ‘Snipi Was. picki; th® Malays off in their own stackedes, Mantu- 1 could hope for no further ad- ntage in 4vaiting any lo Ww yy) hope Mantusen had that the Linkang could and would help him was gone with Clyde's escape. Now Malays had Praus enough fc were left, and their women without a ship, be hopeless, eve way to open wa would be ov praus of t kang—or a necess: Cylde thought that Mantusen could probably still man between 20 and 30 rae It got out oF drive str: nat Malays could bring m. Of course, attempt would > fought his Rerd tomerrew’s chapter. FISTIC BATTLE AT CoaeED ARENA , Tt First fistic battle to take place’ in new Blue Goose Arena (color ed), corner Petronia and Thomas stree iday, March 11, will be for the benefit of Nelson English Park Joe Mills, old-time fight pro moter and one of the best colored boxers in Florida, is in charge of the arena. 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