The evening world. Newspaper, May 20, 1907, Page 13

——— | ears of the spectators, pre memarkable Adv ¢11-|\ Mire. evitceces tures,’ jin Desolate|imn"* —s Here ahd there in the Seas, of the U. Ss. patch of purple, or dull red ton of black showed whe losion, the gay-t Cruiser Wolverine, | 3% pices, ihe ear truction, return ot the Most Uncanny *8"..5. joy, var and Mystifying of AL] “te Garciive vem, | y one know about t survivors accounted for The Mystery. nk rn of her! bergs, only to in the one icy e ble one-strok found days derelict hovered a 1 States crutser aniles north of the steamship route from Yokohama “Looks like a heavy job,” seid Ives, one of the») é juntor Meutenants, “These floaters that He with pause billy Edwards sald @eck almost awash will stand morc hammering ' than a mud fort.” The Lost Laughing her,” said Billy Edwards, the # sign, a wistful ex- to see what they would do.” “How did you happen “Nothing but waste a few hundred dollars of Barnett, quickly. et abranch toased whirling arms a hundred troub led waves of the to Practical Housekeepers, as follows: Two prites of $1 each for the best 200 words or less—the fewer words the better—under any one of these five headings, making ten prizes in all: Dining-room Hints, Making and Making Over, Good*Summer Dishes, Spring Cleaning Hints and Care of the Hands. 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RA ee, sently to be followed by | Carter. ning wavelet fog.” sea a glint of silver, -a J, or a glistening appari “Yes: but the nearest n-sea fish of force ol tim there was ni 20d bobbing in a sw: ign, 1 of “Pretty hard-working e officer In no elrip Car harge of r compli t. She was a tough Hree-mastered : schooner relief went up. the Classic Cratt or| ; to the ship's surgeon, Trend a led and briet-spoken veteran, who. had , fingers’ tips all the lore of all the water BeviSe GUE aire eee Ocean Romance. the stelgn of the: niooy What does the information bureau of the it cd SHARE SS ramet Seven Seas know about it?” + Spent oot Lost three years, ago—spring of 1901 ice field oF i » of jeuth Se 1 1 off the tip Aleutian’. S Billy Edwards Others not. § nnd’ er ( assailed by the officer, in & queer votce. “What do you mean, | eagerly. ibly against wind and safd Trendon, »body knows,” said Edwards. “He Jeft San | fortunate professor.” tions The Strange Ship Without a Crew or. Any Human Being on Board That Was /Disporting Itself in an Unnatural Way on the Occata | “Can't you describe it better than that?” called some eight hundred miles away 5 “Mirage, maybe,” suggested Edwards. ‘Did any one ever seo a ike that before? What do you think, Doc?” ue att ” “Humph!” grunted the veteran, "New to me.|y, Balernle) ” orled. BOy eevee ert “Yes; but did we keep headed?’ asked Barnett,| “In any case,” sald Barnett, who was navigating officer as well as ordnance) that we sighted last night I" “Then we might be fifty miles from the spot “And I'll take one of lar eae eee tt oct At Ol me ees nn Out, OF the. Lightnin Among themselves the officers discussed it tn- and Storm Leaped | terestedly, as it grew plainer. “Not unlike the electric glow above a clty, ves the Laughing Lass, i from a distance,” said Barnett, as It electric-l! | Lost Treasure Ship, mirage, to cover that} or Ship of Mystery, distance,” sald Ives, “Though I've seen ‘em Groat heavens! Look at that!” shouted Edwards Which Had Va n- A great shaft of pale brilliante shot up toward the senith, Under it whirled a imaeistrom of JShed with the Fa- varied radiance, pale with distance, but marvel tously beautifil, Forsythe passed them with a mous Dr. Schermer troubled face, on his way below to report, as his) “The quartermaster reports the compass be horn and His Raga- Three minutes. Inter the captain was on the! ymuffin Crew Two had swung, and they were speeding direct for the phenomenon, But Years Before. 1 within a few minutes the light had died out “Another sea mystery to add to our list,” sald how | ' a ; yey ee he Aleutians!” exclaimed Billy Edwards | ” > By S'ewart Edward White Great Cats! What a drift! How many thou MBLORALG, RY DS i | these Island groups sets his heart on a » ard Sanuel Hopkins Adams and miles would that be? 4 um | loaf of bread up his bread-frult tree, he doesh’t : S24 i 2 © Not as far as many another derelict has wan- CHAPTER II. | bother to climb after i Just, walts Sgn, on © M t nate ahi @ | de n he yn," sa rnet art 9 8 | Te tal’ Pha ak i forth across thi The Laughing Lacs Eevee breeds ese re AGTH Ot Gaede ab CN TBLcrIGS nee Ghiond HE falling of dusk on June 3 found tired eyes} “Good boy, Billy," sald Dr. Trendon, approw CHAPTER /. the ( of Boston, which went down with all aboard the Wolverine. Every officer in her | ingly “Do another.” Desert Seas. hands, leaving for record only a melanchol complement had kept a private and personal| “It’s a fact,” said the ensign, heatedly. “Why, nae , ‘ x atin 8 bit of be to meet the wondering lookout al} day for some explanation of the pre-|% couple of years back there was a trader here 4 : | fisherman on ihe far Cornish coast; of vious night's phenomenon, All that rewarded | Stocked up with a lot of belly-mixture ip Toitlen 1 | a bar | nd, which set out with 5 them were a sky filmed with lofty clouds, and the| Thought he was going to make his pile beckuse ‘ depths th te wind droned i by a ur | holiday parade of the epauletted waves. there'd been a colic epidemic in the islands the ir ieee Riera ( he ocean's wide Naronic, her « F Nor did evening bring a repetition of that| Season before. Bottles werg labelled “Do not re Peat ; Fs 3 alone 1 ng about the strange glow, Midnight found the late stayers Shake.’ That settled bis business. Might us well expans } open sea, to hint at the story of her fate; of the still deep in the discussion. have marked ‘em ‘Keep frozen’ tn this part of gotten reli c ' 5 Huronian, which, ten years later, on the sa | “One thing is certain," sald Ives It wasn’t | (be world, Fellow went broke.” ly the § agedy,| day an te, and hailing from the same port as volcanic,” i> bhack ordered pro- | the . went out {nto the void, leaving no | “Why so?” asked the paymaster. Such a Glow a5 That Never ack ‘ trace; of Newfoundland 18 who “Because volcanoes are mostly stationary, and cession of waves east of the | roaring with wore we headed due for that light.” Came From a Volcano. ; such @ glow as never seen from voleano.” Nor 1," said Trendon. “Don't prove tt ja sir?” asked Edwards, | Wolverine outlined her madly hauling at useless sheets, while the | mightn't have been." against the horizon read of way 1 clawed the compass and shrieked; of “After the light disappeared the compass kept; “J'I! just bet the best dinner in fan Frencise sky no other thing was visible.’ Por this wes one ss and of pest ships and slave on varying. The stars were hidden. There 1s no| that it isn't,” sald Edwards, r ‘ d shi for want ef water; of | telling just where we were headed for some| “You're on,” sald Carter, of the desert paris of the .’s three hundred earthquake waves, and mysterious time.” wots Wa" engguated ives i " said McGutre, 0 Honotutu, five Luncred miles from the nearest im power upon unknown currents; of stout ‘ruiser’ $ U1 we aimed at." “Come one, come all,” ‘sald Edwards, cheerily. to} five tun.red miles from the nearest hulka deserted Ia pane although sound and’ sea The Cruiser’s First Glimpse of the Mystery Ship. siBuedly that.” said’-the aylentor. “We eould ltr ting mish om the Coliestive haa NEMA aantaE Yand, Gardner Islanc t if ap worthy; and of others so swiftly dragged down | Ural sciences,” sald Barnett, “The Government; “Yes,” agreed Barnett “Flora and fauna of | guide her to some extent by the direction of wind | this outfit.” ured northwest of the ey’ ai the wtficers lined | at there was no time for any to save himself; /{8 particularly interested in him because of his some unknown {sland would be much more in) and waves. If it was volcanic we ought certainly! ‘To-night isn't likely to settle {t, anyhow,” Un the cruiser's spat wes gas api io ph and of a hundred other strange, stirring and pit-| contributions to aerial photography.” the Sche rhorn line of traffic. Not unlikely | to have sighted it by now.” said Ives. “I move we turn in.” t the starboard rail. Their tnteres acy *? \ful ventures such as make up the inevitable peril And he was lost with the Laughing Lass?” | that some of the festive natives collected the un-| “Al some electricity in volcanic erup-| Expectant minds do not lend themselves to “Makes compass cut di-| sound sjumber. All night the officers of the musingly; sco two years ago on a hundred-foot; Various theories were advanced, withdrawn, re-| does. Seen it bef Wolverine slept on the verge of waking, but it schooner, with an assistant, a big -brass-bound | futed, defended, and the discussion carried them| “‘Where?” queried Carter, was not until dawn that the cry “Sail-ho!” Lass— \chest and a ragamuffin crew. A newspaper man|through the swift twilight into the darkness) “Of Martinique, Pelee eruption. Needle| sent them all hurryin, to their c otfes. | named Slade, who dropped out of the world about} Which hed been has.ened by a high-spreading chased {ts taf! like a kitten. ‘ “They found Carter, whose watch on deck it: » time, is supposed to have gone alot canopy of storm-clo » schooner was last sighted about 450| Crow's-nest came startling news for those deso- body asked. H miles nor s to hit on her?” asked) pound westward. That's all the record of her| bow. nett. | that there 1s.” “What's It like?” ure, buried or unb' 1 observed Ives. agtnation,’ re than this region, sd changing,” said Barnett. 8. Abruptly from the) “Are there many volcanoes hereabouts?” some-| was, reprimanding the lookout, “No, sir,” the man was insis “she didn’t sst of Oahu, in good shape, and late seas: “Light—ho! Two points or the port| “We're in 162 west, 31 north, about,” said Bar-| show no light, sir. I'd ‘a’ sighted hi ‘ No telling whether there are or not. | ago, alt, if she bad * ee The lookout had given extra voice to it. It was, Ther> weren't at last accounts, but that’s no evi-| “We shall see,” said Carter, grimly. “Who's your Uncle Sam's money,” observed Carter, the) “Why not, sir? It naturally came into my “Was that Re ” lainly heard throughout the shi | ; 8! ke Bi tt. plainly hear roughou! e ship. lence that there aren't some since. They come prerec ot the deck, ._,'1t takes placed chareye igside pees Sho was last scen somewhere about this | : ong He Sede vali oats and artir:.” | 6 IPnint, up in the night, these volcanic islands.” ”. ak Pelzer tl and out for that kind of work.’ Lat o porithtien boreal pers A Cat - m0 | “Thee ‘hit well’ sald Baraete “He was in| * 2ein't Any Regular | yc dust cast an eye on the charts, Billy Bd-| “Let him take your place. Go aloft, Sennett.” 1 ZA, +0 nt rom something our mess in the Philippine campaign, on the i ” war y! of B. D.’s and P. D.’s all over the As the loo! The Information a “eau 1B ey atners z dodge we've a commission to keep North” De F Ww peop then. It's And Proper Light. | shop. Every one of ‘em volcanic. below, Earned ante hpareet eyelid wae of the Seven Seas. | eta.” h out for her as well as to destroy dere-|girange that I never identifind him before with The group of officers stared in the direction in- | D,’s and P. D.'s?” queried the paymaster. “Upon my word, | shouldn't be susprised :tf) the “Barneit’s the man for her then,” said Ives. What about the Laughing Lase?’ asked M {the Slade of the Laughing Lass.” dicated, but could see ROI Fb pce potted pieeistence Sonvitey Lay position doubtful,” ex-| man were right, Certainly there's som ease lieaipricipad whan it comes to getting re- | foes ant Paymsat gt a New Englander, who had ret ena shad tee AN aie abate leo gr same one of these airioy Reha tite eres SORE S20 ene eee ee ae ee base t pdrigke yp ‘ been in the service but a short time. “They wer pposed to be after buried treas-| time came a second hall from the crow's-neat. |{n his eye he reports an island. If he really does Without any, particully baste, as tt seemed to| | “Good Lord! don't you remember the Laugh-| ure gee gated Sint de by wae Mion deck, sit!” | bump into a rock he cuts in an arithmetic. book faye pans sccoppr whieh Seeee pare manted the watchers, the hulk was shouldered out of the |ing Lass mystery and the disappearance of Dr id Barner ought {t more ikely that Dr.| “Hello!” responded Carter, the officer of the| {or his latitude and longitude and lets it go at| Pacific type, but she waa com reel i Fe eee eee anor eciag wilet aad Bren took eat Schermerhorn wasn A scientific expedition,” | deck |that. Tiat's how the chart-makers make a liy-| manner uncommon to the ractfle, melted into a black, outshowert is mist, and from| arl Augustus Schermerhorn, the man whoso| said Edwards [ knew the old boy, and he, “There's a light here I can't make anything out/ ing, getting out new editions every few months.” | ocean. 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