The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1905, Page 11

THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CALL AL AT T Sy 05050 IIIGHRNE published to-day—"The Pilgrim § rth of a series of thrilling sea 3 by Cutcliffe Hyne, detailing “The Adver- § ¢ tures of Captain Kettle” If y ' fnto the oily sea heneath. It is not good should remain with the quick even for mir ances such as those. And while bearers carried him away, an old ¥ want something ¥ % that will blood ar t you ot : gy will warm the blood and lift you out .of t‘he haired negro frc Sokoto stood up: # dead level every-day commonplaces, don’t miss to the roll of the p, and faced 24 Y P 3 with bowed head. Aloud he bore e stirring experiences of Captain Kettle. With $ the exception of this story, which will be con- ded next Sunday, cne complete stery of ad- will appear every week in the Sunday the series is finished. I T D B S L GBI e e O the great, and that Ma that of rtals each man’ forehead. And then the of the pilg t the forehe: o the torturing deck blates and made profession h following his words. Cap Ke f stand against the rail of t bridge deck pitied t then, and placent sigh of a certaln obscure ch at the same t!me he could not the heathens They rebore to curse God in doing It, i into the workings of fatalism which made iron ¢ ) of what Corto n has said. ¢y man among the pilgrims had sword, or or mace. or rifle within grip and as a fi force—with fatali to back began to r that they could make a very ugl npany to maneuv against. A regulation of the pilgrim trade requir all weapons shall be taken from this class of pa Guring the voyage, but Kettle had omitted to dis: Red Sea ions, w . s through sheer contempt for what they could do. { g 1 chose to fi ong themselves, that was their b= - concern: it mever even rred to him as the b Jeddah quay. noisy and odorous, t they would dare to [y contend against his imperial will; but now he sincerely / ' wished that the means of serious offense Were not so 1, lays , and t handy to thelr finge zing Red Se t I do not say that he was afrgid, for knowing him | it t rde himself re- well, I honestly believe that the little ruffian has never Q\/" rched the new Jeddal yet feared man that was born of woman: but the safety ey v s Resly of the (jme on this carth, they'r xtous to move along upstairs “Wor't you slitg that filthy nightgown thing of yours Of the Saigon was a matter just then very near to his ‘v, was g g red green tur- whenever a decen. opportunity offers to get there. overboard,” he ed, “and have a wash? I can rig you heart, and he had forebodings as to what might happen ¢ Hac tally “They're an ugly crowd to tackle; 1 grant that.” cut with some pyjamas from the slop chest. to her. Ry & & PGS are so, and don’t you forget it. T might point But Cortolvin would not change his dirt and squalor He went Back again inside the charthouse, sat him- b 3 E out, captain, that. personally speaking, I'd been a lot safer . just then He had'worn it 00 lopg Hf be affected by it; self upon the safa, andiran a finger. round inside the f X = ed fron iy, tayed down on the lower fore deck yonder and. held ‘and,” said he. “I don’t want to advertise the fact that I'm collar of his white drill coat. ; A g of my tongl They’d have got you to an absolute certal an Englishman just at present. If my dear friends down Do you like the cheroots, sir?” he said to his tattered . he had stah for his ended, and I could have Yonder on tha lower deck knew it, they'd not wait for the Bues: if they’d ambushed you as was i ¢ ved a sound CPNEines to be repaire They'd fizzle up fust like gun- kept out of the actual throat-cutti ce cheroots,” said Cortolvin: “wonder how many True Believers are a pretty tough g and pre N . canvas for his X : G der §% et thite men I'll smoKe. Thos 1 ; : Bl 7 Sy s As el et I very Powder, there and then. and the whole lot of us white men , Those True B 3 e ou could count his ribs twenty P ey s DECL 0T S LM & VLY o BulA Do Dyt ion Wity tansdls Tatore v dd iR Lot IR crowd, aren’t they? There's one Soudanese fellow in a 4 tie look of a man, and when o i “I don't know about that,” sald Kettle. “T've faced Darfur suit of mail. Did you notice him? He's been a Iped to throw wose of his e A Somaror the uailes rds that have floated on the seas bIS war sheik in his day. He helped to smash up Hicks e o o h Siili Gortorvin SRtHEE 0 His chotiders 4 somc ie ugliest crowds that have floate he seas big w: ) had died during night, it was 3 in shrugged his shoulders. “Oh, I chip in 4 o0 0" tnis and they thought they were going to have it Pasha's army, and commanded a thousand men at the with you.” “Will you tell me why?” e in the charthouse to re- “Cousinship of t skin, T suppose You're white by S vl s gues ated seizing the Saigon so birth, and I believe I should turn out to be white also if I ‘hm.:)'u;q“;,“i,,',,:,‘:,'1\7'(::.?x,. e “He shall have my first shot.” sald Kettle. e put in running kept out of the sun for awhile ¢ had several TurkisR en: outside the charthouse and leaned over the bridge “It surprises me,” said Cortolvin, “that you ever went t you, if you know baths. Of course I've a snuff-colored hide on me now, and gocie pafl. The awning above him threw a clean-cut shade in for this pilgrim-carrying business at all. You must during this last two years I've been living with men of which Swung to and fro ns the Saigon rolled over the gaint bave been preity hard pushed, captain.” such skitiles, isn't it?" safa color and following their wi afid thinking - thelr ' Diiy swoll: Sfid. satsias ity sticlter €he- sunce rays. fatl Hke “Hard wasw't the word for it,” said the shipmaster thoughts. Funny, Isn't 1t? T come across vou. 'I dON'L iuolten brass and the metal work was hot enough to ralse With a sigh. “I met misfortune, sir, in Chile. T disagreed own way, but they found that when it c storming of Khartoum; but he got sick at Mahdiism about that I could keep my end up very handily a year back, and set out to perform the Hadj. When It chair, placed a box of ¢omes to fighting, you'll see that man will shine.” fellow of more than ordinary all their shootin the f it said the Hadji; you'ln know you from Adam. T can't say I particularly like what g plister. The air was motionless and stagnant, and greasy With my employer, who was a lady, and went off cruising f v tend to remain master of the 1Ve seen of you, and yet here am I, rounding on my former yiith the smell of humanity. The whole fabric of the In a boat by myself. A tea steamer picked me up and mates and chipping in with u on the clear knowledge gteamer. shimmered in the dancing heat. put me in Colombo. I got from there to Bombay as second eaching of my business from that I shall probadly get killed during the next few hours For the dense mass of pilgrims below the situation mate of a mp, but I couldn't stand the old man's s Aol Tor muy, wa £ A 3 2 . approached the intolerable. Left to itself. the rusted iron tongue, and went ashore without my wages. I guess, sir, Cortolvin, “ha it your own way. ay T said Kettle. “T beli " deck beneath thelr bare skins would have grown hot LM no g0od except in command; I can’t take an order be decendly grateful. I've risked he added with a bow, t you are a gentleman cnough to char them. Nothing but a cgnstant sluicing with —CIvill e you news of what was in the The Hadji laughed. “So far as I recollect, I was that ywater made it in any way to be endured. And as the “Well, in Bombay I'd a regular nipgut time of it. I retend that the information is not once, captain. Sorry I haven't a card on me, but my name’s yater from alongside came up to them as warm as tea, it bummed round the agents’ offices till I almost blushed to crew, who will be absolutely foolish W. H. Cortolvin, und I lived near Richmond, in Yorkshire, did but little to refresh. look at their punkah-coolies; but I'd no papers to show these Lascars always are that way. before I was idiot enough to go wandering off the Cook's The African can withstand most temperatures which that would do me any good: and nome of them would wo white engineers and two white mates tourist route inte the middle of Arabia.” are thrown from above on the face of this planet, but 8!ve me a ship the size of a rice mat. five of you wouldn’t a show. “I'm Welsh myself,” said Kettle, “but I've known men ¢ven the African can at times die from heat as glibly as “At last, when I was getting desperate, and pretty with, who are all fighting bred, from Yorkshire.. Shake hands, sir, please. Will you have bLis betters. Even as Kettle watched, one of the pilgrims, Near put to going to ‘sea before the mast, a Cardiff man 1 well armed, and they wouldn’t a whisky peg?” a grizgle-headed Hausa from the western Soudan, was I once knew came to the lodgings and gave me a tip. maging in such a cause. “Pour it out, captain. I haven't tasted a Christian contorted with heat apoplexy: breathed stertorously for a He'd been master of a country steamer; he'd been sacked of their creed that If they peg drink for thirty weary months. And you've got chattie minute or so: and then lay still, and immediately became a (he didn’t deny it) for drunkenness; he’d not drawn a urs, they go slick to paradise hung up in the draught of a port! Cool water, ye gods! prey to flies innumerable, two of his nearest comrades be- Sober breath for months, and didn't see any prospect of That wily old camel driver of Mecca Bismillah! But it Is good to be alive sometimes. stirred themselves to look at him, pronounced that life was Cbanging his habits; and there was the berth vacant, X t the sort of dandy place to suit Captain Kettle looked with distaste at the Hadji's extinct, stood up, and, with an effort, carried the body and I might have it for the asking. ¥ s most of them have a beast of a attire. out of the press and heaved it over the hot iron bulwark To Be Cencluded Next Sunday.