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U The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, May 8. 1914 "== THE ADVENTURES OF A MAN WHO CARRIED $160,000, LOOSE IN HIS POCKETS, ON BROADWAY= CAPTAIN V a] A Complele Novel Fach Week in The Evening Word]a| By Edgar Franklin Author of “BORN TO TROUBL. (Copyright, The Frank A, Munsey Compass.) were quite mounted and standing | Well--good Lord! What's all the = The visitor to the warship wrung thoughta while in prison. Latterly excitement about, then? Here's your his hand doubting quality, too, aa he eat 38 OF PRECEDING CHaPTeRs, @foUund as if waiting for sumething to ene ot the big penal inatitutions publish pert- face fuller ae oe cn trator of teri ana Happen the hold took to disgoreing fifles, all ready, Where's your army?” — “After he has finished his public odcala, wholly the work of inmates pile One Cece ae at ovclutone, tome to New Vork io Many uniform cases, each bearing the ‘The future President pointed dra- weeping,” be choked, “he will appeal and packed with ideas largely optim- 2A ca Matis tn - brand of a prominent agricultural matically shoreward. to all the people to pass an old-age !stic. There is, perhaps, something fairly electrified and the Snake hardware concern, Men pried off their “There~ hidden! Pr pension act, giving an income to {n confinement that fosters gheerful that'expression well. It spelled in covers and Capt. Velvet apent many “So far from Relampago? every one over forty-five thought. aspiration, and tt came on rere oora- hours in inspection, not of hardware, Senor Pacato’s teeth showed Ud- Capt, Velvet drew a tong breath of | There must be, because auddenly, 4, Whi but of rifles that flashed out of brown denly and in a smile, admiratic there in the gloom, Robert Pollard S10ns When it had appeared tn the paper packages and were tucked back past, success had followed—aad & “In that, at least, everything has “Mike,” he sald, never thought /aughed aloud. been smooth, my deer Velvet 1 gaivato had much brains, but [ t eer sound, all things struck the Snake suddenly that it was massed them ‘there, waiting your @r- tail back now. Why -Lord! They'll Considered inky litte clomet it- ¢he very firat time in this rival—most of them from Up-Coun- apend the whole night cheering him! Self, being backed againat the boiler matter that he had Saeed try. Ferrara is with us, you know.” Thi he a whole yeur before they cout of the Glory B., poasessed a temper ‘ig jo had even that “The railroad boss, eh?” down enough to find out he was ‘Ure ten or fifteen degrees above the glow. “And he haa furnished me with epe- ink. one hundred mark, They had been in And as the Spanish Brutes treas Pollard’ een ‘ve got one thing cinched, any- of one cot the, Catan Bort the Brute remarked that morn. Nadoeersen et Te ee site of (Dm. 1o's going to start @ private ern fon, ihemaete After War somewhere.” er Caplatn knock-eut wipe. Ae ‘Captat Pollard merely looked at htm cial trains, and they are there, even th ind shanghales. sil three, thoughtfully and returned briskly to ‘And in that year what will he get ‘here @ scant half-hour and they were rattied into the corner aad the he atten Mi work, for the captain and. MoWirt how, waiting to run my army @trsleht tor himacif?” hissed Pacato, all bone dry. heap atte PO yrere celal again, bed point of in ani leWirt, his only 4 Apparent almost tm- to Work on the hardest sii mediately, for men took to running back and forth, chattering and run- into’ Relainpago. 1 planned to take t the rifles ashore if I could catoh you ,,, Pvery, blooming cent in Banta e j : ied tho Dee eee oo et ete quickly ae captain, and @cratched hia beard. “He Prenat to brent becaune they ' stepped aside to permit them te iningling the musty smell trom the fearful little closet from the engine room, was "!m. even Kyan was smiling. ‘The tension, the suspe: lated’ parote "these tee ine Gomi ning back again with a quantity of hbase % alwaya did want to go back to Spain.” forced to breathe ord Further, ‘rhey followed the reapectful CHAPTER XVI. 4-inch timbera which they #et up for= Tike, are you sick?” v tio Is nexotiating even now fore Mr. McWirt had toaded them with ian and Me ss \onikeds ‘ ward in a curious circle. na ueike, Are you ack?” Capt: Velvet aitiat home in Madrid,” the vinltor puecl tors’ that would nave created ‘Be DUBY a : “ 0 knew whore, that would have created id, heavily. ‘Well? And then Mf Boats Were alongaid @ acandal on an eighteenth century the tug’s t brok® Srigon wbip; when they moved they those of the Glory B. "wen were Later a sail was dragged out and In Iron nailed, very neatly indeed, around the ORNING dawned bright and peculiar circle; yet it was only as “At heart, my friend. 1 have no “3 % need for an army—now. Salvato is eet te ite tarew ae ies be ‘ Velvet. He has plan t altogether, 6 threw up his hands ing cases of rif Se uie revciation ORE we forcenen and bie voice came us a wail: "Velvet, Sethe ene veer cute ecn macys quieniy Riching sopen, weouamr ai” Tam undone! 1 aan undon a ‘And ati! Pollard laughed aloud JoWerlng them to the water, ee ane and even Inughed more mer- Witd the shore one laden re strictly undone, Mike—Juat fiy “nd when the sound died out W@ om the point of beaching qvem ¥ ft loonened @ little around the nore was a shudder in the Spanish "OW: ’ clear, and early rising they themselves were set to painting it an extra heavy gray that t! seemed part of the routine discovered the thing a i. eu on the surging, wallowing turret, slightly lacking in substance, Glory B. Pollard, having re- Perhaps, but formidable enough at a “How?” Senor Pacato's voice ross to a shriek: “Velvet, to-night he NORE INE RES NOH mile's distance, with the emer: 1. knots,” he suid, soothingly, “You 9 ¥old And beside Capt, Vel ye fused flatly to rise and confront an- d i ¥ po hold meeting in Relampago-a Hrute’s voice. pt. vet cat @ A fused Rally 10 rine and ooitesoy tne laned muzzics aticking out on etther wetng in ae Plase Livertaus for now this doesn't really mean a mite'e NOlCe. oe seiko, keep a gtip MAR WOO wi ( Be human being could do all ” threatenin which he da proclamation call- | hewe thin on yourself, Robby!” he pleaded “4 aa to one country. Anyway, },4, “Don't ae | . Miguelo Macato as they Ing all people together. For three [in huck of you in. thia revolution, Rosraely. “Don't gy off your head nin ang they approved’ days every train has been coming Y CJ fete the cliy crowded—crowmded with nts ‘Hie In only tittle aang, Se they you think I'm going crazy?” Pollard atepped.a litle ahead of them, @ailor with the ham hands and in- It was very, very curious, all of it; Jeoted willy-nilly into the day he yet it did not interest them greatly. earned. Day by day they yearned for free- dom, speak! y we 6 beamed and leaned back ol amiling, the: Ryan and the Snake, although they tones when no one was Nears ee fools! Balvato himself will conduct lowly. “Why, Mike, Yl tell you just ckled. laugh In here ANd Captain Velvet, rising: saniie® gibbered as they dressed, sought to And then, on the morning of the him an and of picked aasasins One, lite ting, that happened tn/the: the Snake declared bit- ¢¥en more pleasantly, summer of eighty-nine”—— about the cabinet and a@ de of wy rj vw terly, The awful nightmare was a Dellce about the aasansins, And—e urpett (he ‘Secker noe Reiampens, pj Ad pollard laughed again, so mer, of the past. Blood reced fa, PoSarge > 4 ing and brought a flush regiment of Federal infantry about + tly this time that his chains clanked Velns | a wo his the police.” td “Thin tn the epeech that concerns Wel’ and Jingled like a professional cheek: he, halted before the eagaaim 7) but that is wh say they wouldn't belleve # for a this began to bappen: I ptain, we've come te matters not at all who surrounds While, long enough to re-elect him got the answer!” Pres: the purpose of him, Velvet. it—it is what he plans axainat all comers, perhaps. They're “Sieg what?” asked the Brute, and frank conf making « Fons Th to hurl over their heads in bis grand #n emotional lot anyway, and Tdon't there was @ dragging sound of Iron The merical speoch, It—it"-—— Senor Pacato's S4¥ he couldn't keep the apell over Chain aa he edged into the furthest "And I want to gibber pleasantly at the seaman, and ery UME) Arcko enadeniy, 5 al ail but tagged after him as be headed tha Glory My and with the knowledge Pollard toward breakfast. that something was different. One Morning, in fact, kept on dawning full minute went by before he quite right and clear, day after day, The [Ptl'zed that the Glory H. was merely fasarenting tio trom Now York ob- Cranmic gin Ar hoe aceite Ina onuonl credible din of her engines had ceased e@erved it, in spite of blisters that rose altogether, He bounced from his by the dozen and muscles that tried bunk and peered through tho port— and then, suddenly white under the ¢o climb through the skin. tan, he leaped to the Snake and “Not quite #0 ing dreadfully onward through shook him gently, with: Telco broke utterly. "Velvet, hoe ‘em till he'd had time to clear out the Comer, quiculy ‘es poset the wholly incredible nightmare, pass- = “Snake! Land!" # ? smontota plang, absolutely, to take the last Whole treasury and ship it home to “Where we made the great, big, Sued earnestly. “! rooms, kneeling humbly to spread before openin ib biking A he floor bimeelt to be thrust up the rope lad- the turret, to watch his pleasure At “the Captain's eyes sparkled looking at him, amiled Sestak tris Ceye. ee eee pA hn on snowy white along the edges of de n doing lat ole jinyteenatt He. ras able to the aight of the ,fourtnch rifles Miguelo," he sald, "you're an in nd, thrust & hand into his pocket. . the police are unable to eerted bunks, they noted nevertheless, “What port are we in?" he gasped, "don’t know what he'll do, but— Vane tc. busts ierenion a could wip teresting talker. Go on and lemme He brought it forth again holding a “uh?” chattered Evans gone up against some THis tha aalsca Ero atendiiy warner, ("S eduloust _. this is the finish, | guess, We may mile. projectiles a full half And out how we're to lick him.’ py BO Nien ed occa ica he = “Junt exactly that. The old mi est games koown and ‘When, after a long, long time, un- PY ote all, We're‘lying half a be dead when ifs over, but we'll take "Yet he atarted back at the sight of anti, him?" the president-to-be Untarte Velvet." ieronia Dathonlealiv, velvet: he's the slickest crook that with the money. But and the shore looks | ending cans of white had been spread jike uninhabited country-—and tropi, mith w through the old place, when It glis- cai country at that. La fened with the raya from tho akylight Haima!’ | hat. Look at the from one end to the other, and they smiled forlornly, “Perhaps. I do not ,, ‘ore shoe leather. Why, I'd like fore we tried to tri fa that gentleman [now as to that, But my secret agents “Thad even designed the flag of our f, bet that half the things ‘he tells “Yea?” jm OU, k. ‘The well-fed sleek- are faithful and very officient, Vel. New republic about are cold truth, ‘That old scoun- interest, neas of the man had vanished in the vet. They have indeed worked well , The: captain atared at it for some drei dares to do things that we “And short three weeks since thelr last these past two days, for yesterday t'me. There wan a brilliant red back~ wouldn't Are you on kor Pacaty, nd ihe Spanish Brute Sercned the d hief and he thrilled. A flitting » said. had even painted the stairway with Referee SoruRneeully tensed ee ee Hee esa Ny eh gg the meeting, and with it much of the cl they brought me a copy of the speech KT" 4, with croms-bare of white: grins tine, Se Taq Tuk TeLIIy handed be Wan dsenreed“oveey Ok tender care, they realized that shirts ea, theyre ‘nice palma” he anid the Baake: Meee rrertone:, Anat tivated repose. Senor Pacato's face Salvato will deliver to-night. there wan a big atar in each angie, iy pretty simple too in some ways. of it. The boys cores bit were becoming @ burden. Fe Hate ne a a ee a eeerate ‘charac: WAR faintly lined with wrinkles that “Lemme seo it, Mike,” the captain too, representing the four provinces Witut that man needs to dle worth © them that they dont blame sours Yet, in a way, they were happy. cae of his bunk auain ee ee eeeeete de thely Bad Mot been there before: hin eyen requested of Banta Chansa, billion dollars in us particle, and T want to eay thet itt However stupidly, they understood What ar demanded the Span- discredit on their native heath upon shifted nervously, and there were “When [ read It my brain took fire! |) that's a real trim fi “Well, he's got us," the Brute sub- a wonder you didn’t kill ive Ter ehelr work was done. They ®At, teh Nene ae ar inde’ the Bane ech Dollard at least, did not tike deep circles beneath them; and the Tho flames of ungovernable fury en the captain approved. “That's mitted done with it. meared, grinning dazedly at one “palms —shore— liberty — hustle!” to meditate when alone in the dark. hand that clasped convulsively about veloped me for @ time, Gnother, chattering emptily about preathed Pollard ae he struggled into And now that pure instinct told Captain Velvet's fingers wan cold and fessed. "I tore the 1 thing “And T had thought, only to-mor- mean that, working together, we four what they had aurvived and the years his clothes, “liurry!, Why the deuce them that the end of the rope had clammy. into ten thousand little pieces and row, only the day after, to aea tt would make a combination that could ft would take to recover; and as they don't you hurr: come, a very curio Magione tens. “Why—Mike!" exclaimed the cap- danced upon them for half an hour: floating from the flagpole in the start the world apinnitg backward if chattered Mr. McWirt entered sud- = “Because | was--was wondering if sion gripped them, There would be a tain. but every damnable, lying word is Plaza Libertad, floating from the We wanted It to. We could plan denly and demanded to know why In he'd let us leave!” the Brute con- fight, and, unless they chanced all "My friend,” sald the future preal- graven upon my memory Velvet, he tallest flagpole in South America!” things that would never occur to him; the wonderfully qualified infernal fessed, staring straight at the floor, three to be shot down at the very be- dent of Santa Chanza, with deep feel- will, first of all, apologize to the re- the visitor aald heartbrokenly he could do things we'd never think ratu con- 48 nice a flag us I ever see.’ “E don't.mean just this way, 1 Hesions they were not on deck and at The chief of the band stopped with ginning of it it would be such a Aight ing, “You, at leust, J can trust!” | public for what has been termed swell, yo * 2 _ of tackling! Put the two together ee eT Une Of Gavlight atill, belle ta wie bend ani ranged shire In as might well go down in the history “You can, Mike!” the captain as- grafting udministration. Then he wilt taka lia ed the SAR. and you've got whole crime trust, gale you to take us on.” remaining. other, of that old sea-beaten ship. sured him. tell them that every penny which has itrernoon.” with Juat four men in it to aplit the “ql wheter inquired Captatn Wet- So they went on deck, and the little “Let us?" he echoed. thas had th be sure, @ very flerca “And 1 have intercepted you,” Pa- seemed to go natray has been stored “ simpoasible!” tuft amone.” we. German sailor showed’ them how to “Iwas thinking: te same thing,” old man to thrash—or to Kill, If they cato hurried on, relaxing somewhat, “WAX by him and his Cabinet for the A QhhOnt Enthusiasm caused hin heavy "“kimetion clogged Pollant’e turn white paint Into gray; and Mr. Snake said. chose to face the bald fact They “We can talk—-where?" benefit of the whole people” Ee ne he remuins in atrict sectu. Preathing to become audible, eek menuee etter. MeoWirt, with the end of bis quir Don't you want to leave this— auivered sympathetically as MeWirt onsidering that this is your per- “Will they aver awallow that iin unt Tent walnt tee That's a big dea, Robby,” the tain,” he sald, “any ftte” pointed out that all habitable enclos- this’—~ Pollard cried amazedly. marched them toward the broad back gonal warship, so to sp y un Before he has finished, 1 fear, Vel- fy tigated fri ie a faot Gas: je anid absently, “I wonder when on ‘any Itttle thing you ures, ashore or afioat, have outsides “1 want to, Bobby, a Ryan, of the captain, standing well forward talk pretty near anywt the cap- vet The visitor sighed heavily. intra men about hie we're going to get ahot is good enough for uae undergoes even more expansive than their cor- “only 1 know blaned’ well that With, marine-glasses at his eyes—the tain assured him. “We might go over “Having condemned his own soul Capt. Velvet regarded him thought From Robert Pollard'a aide of the And just there his 4 Seshonding Inuides that the Glory B. want doit he dint through with ue, tension grew all but unbearable. They to the port side of that turret, though. thus fur with falsification, Fee eae eardad Bim thouant, dark little clonet came a storm of him to thrust out his right head sessed hardly a square inch that and I hate to think what might hap- looked at Hobest Dollard for the six- It's shady there if the wind doesn't kick it further down into perdition nd; ahd the- captain’ Rin wound that suggested the breaking of ery: id not require decoration, and that ife-ol, £ dunt nd Pollard looked keenly at the piew the blamed thing down.” He will announce that, by consent of E ptuin'a eye bright. PON tader a load of steel raile, jeirs would be the task. ‘Two minutes, and {t glittered. tain, forgive us!" ntain. There would be a storm of 41, 5 he the Cabinet and the Legislature in foul angi |, upon my word!" gasped their ay, smiling still lurd, in fact, was rising to h a feet. Captain Velvet himself Then he swished the quirt a bit and apse thc arensite Manin and at the first word ql secret sexaion, all land taxes have ve wot it, Mike!" he announced. “ ‘and’ 1" ing to propone it t 4 took to dre a “ain. p exper thy Je his ou nd Pm goin propom '@ rather moved, He considered caused the funny little tails to crackle “yout al . he would start the battle Ha held iit op scenic wo ‘4 been abolished and that the measure . “ a” 6 to pro 7 You'd better stick he Ree eine oapialy Wisiee bit of ie work: and then Capt, been nbolished and tite tie eiuerion I's going to the bandstand in Bin!" he panted n going to prove hand for a moment and red (4 watched him, Velvet turned rather grave, for Senor carries with I : eaenia Pacato had passed it with no more © y BA, BeORe are Te ot unten, than a glance, and the glance war od bles my soul! ListihadGahecil Redes Bates , very worried and 4 pled. “Ha Velvet. ‘That's enough to make ed annoyedly, % sighed heavily as be settled In the elect him for life~ just that alon fand anap in a funny little fashion he some second: had just discovered; and they paint- animate the first tim ed through the two precious hours of gince the morning of daylight. awakening. Silently then they Gray paint engulfed the whole world, ty hurrying into thelr own raiment, ® a to him that we're just am good as We trin » 1 tUke really are, and from the second we his Nien — Pepa E ves" hook up with him, boys, we're on the strangely. But almoat. {i mw ra road to wealth. ‘That's right! I'm his hear All right, sir, We'll walt till he Colne to yell for @ mensonger and ask folded” Bell laza to make his aperc And as the captain faced the trio anta Chanza.” escaped Capt » oy . I “ 5 gets there, then we'll go and tear taking the place of white. The trio pollard faced them only when quite Hey tred to escane, Ait feck chair and slid a fresh cigar — "E know it, but— there is more. Next Ls bi him ¢ intervi cluded Pol- e olla them o aah , f one: ¢ do stid a ¢ " him down-eee? ‘The “him for an interview,” conclu arip that ined - merely swam through it, backs break- ready to lnave. Well, 1 dunno BHC Re von aie Fee nn ne aie “ond then he he will prociaim the building of @ \wronthat mand, Mike, und youl in, lard ae he clanked toward the door. “Son, oald the captate, with . ing, bones splitting, sunburn smart: swe 7 aa well have let em, Mr. iced aimoat Woked at Capt. Velvet with tragic in- two million dollar univ ratty In Te- eye ee Ra zetn hy. Kor @ moment tron rattled deafen- fecling, “you're forgiven! Youre al. - ing, on and on and ever on; and for wy ean we'll zo, tc bby," captain said with a preoc Hie! Seat part. they Wore ATANUOY Greke cela” cele, hoiee hot ent smile, And then, evidently Uncommuntcative, even to one AN- Cant be any worse than chat whip.” wnaware even of the murderous glances tensi lampago; that, you know, ts what tyrant, having looted the whole ra- !nely. drowning even hin kicking on forgiven! PEON aR eal Nine aetna Nasa reat ment has been Agnie bublic, was Just about to add the Inst (he panels. Then with astonishing error of your ways before it was 5 . t readiness the door ewung open. Gray late. Bo’ 3 PR cues couch nowaver. omNeY od! Weill make straight. for that were consuming him, he Glan ieee erty!” All duties have bean abolishes 1a BY api go tau OF ee ie Uaht, filtering in, revealed the giant t® fin, ths ‘big een cud dine Bere Coat Valet ene cay. mumgent: (conics andoven li without loging ao ee ied and raised his giass- The captain removed dia gap and stuffs and upon wearing apparel bpinion to pass more grafting lesisia, sailor of the hamilke hands. Pollard little one, und*—— ” 0 | . \d Pollard, “. PB < 5 “ I'm only glad you saw Wi & ated 44 * ‘em in irons, afr. "CFS! ‘ “And that's what the middle tion that would benefit himaeit %ressed him coolly: ust Robby ta what ool ma" tag to Me Meron and they iiv- [lb.tell you wo something cheerful St Avie. hagrisred, “t can'e We pers ,narem Lguppove themes Shon, ia, Des bean Gepune, for ie Stee ay “Will you Kindly ask Capt. Velvet ald Pollard. es seed up like little tenement children Pefore We start it Just struck me trad with ‘em now. Pane ne ania” Wann said absorbedly. “Don't stop, Mike. nd" — if he will grant mea five-minute in- “And just Robiy—that’e what You're not getting — “And when the tmbeciles } at that, Mike nimilated that, my friend, at their first sight of the green coun- hey a i th “phen yell at ‘em about tyranny for terview and assure him that there will call him, Mik try—after which they discovered that aye, aye, : three or four minutes, steady. Hy be no attempt at unpleasantness of thoughtfully. y " rine) ; “The brig, siti gt Hound's Alibustering, aw sure ax BIR bale all worked up aby Senor Pa- "s Koing to land that armory Sponded his frst “But I ‘Velvet, when the liberty cato groaned, “he will announce that Ay ec) ht fon that It ™ the diversion consisted of being nnn that armory “tip about the Spanish Brute's shins. ut Tam, Velvet, when eato gronned, 1 that time I'll get your army to chear- 8A¥ Sort? You might mention 4? tne ciugtin cutting rope saddles and weiere, and agme. government whip about the Mimre iT tear you In happens to he of the brand T propose a compulsory minimum wae Jaw h8® ing, and I'll hop Up mynelf and pro. concerns buat "They need shaving,” sald painting the funnel a brilliant red, Qavance. As quick as wae get to that Strips furnishing to an oppressed people been passed, advancing alt wagee 1 you the new President of Santa Now thin giant sailor had been at enchanted!” republic at least fifty per cent.” ‘hanza, You know, Mik for the working class, Go Loot awn there.” ato sald rath revolution on Ai the Spanish Brute snapped Hike myself.” F with two glaring white bands near 3 ; a taut violin string as he ambled hast- Thera isn't anothi ‘the top. I'm pretty least rough with them on several oc- “I'll seo that they're shaved proper,” shore and a telegraph we'll find ont casions, once when they were painting #ald the captain, and turned his beams what government and collect the They dabbed blindly at it for the thousand i eee ne ie away with @ desperate character foot? _ on! ni" And then?” Pacato anked tensely. the decayed wheelhouse he had been in« countenance upon Pollard betes fart ot one ‘blistering day, (nousands, And If Vin not able to Ch clther sido: tears ran down his | “Worse!” sighed) the rota ee tice ani said the visitor, and “Why, then you Just deliver Sal- peeved about something, and even more. “Well, it seems like old while a red-hot wind swept the ocean Pra cdand something thousand dol- face and he whimpered strangely President. “There is a bad leak In his voice thinned out to a reream vato'y mpeech vouraolf, of course!" kicked the Spanish Br Also, he for all of » be friends again,” and uncounted millions of hot soft. ‘old and aloof and as nearly said. “Just bring up some ateole aa Men hially (t * nand his black eyes dilated eraz- Capt, Velvet concluded. Nad hee coal particles worked bually to Ke! elongs " ‘Whatter you know about that?” mine t belongs to me Whatter you aT THI aw nn lars in his poe Rata eda’ BiTilert ai n, of nobody In partic ne will tell them that the rov- 4 considerable space the banker haughty as was possible for a mere I'll tell you what's going forward this sont Bertin lang-apaces the choking THA exneeraive esos giitere\ aenAttae 1 know about th “P have no idea that Is the had ernment means to construct @ ays! giared at him la cevis calior minute, boys.” * are plack smoke had been unable to pene- Nitceeate, win " bibl feature, But it exists.’ of parks throughout every large city Velvet,” he in many waya | Yet now he bowed politely and rat- They raced away like happy @all- rate the way the } CHAPTER XVIL Well, leaks, Mike” the captain that the parks will have AaTY, Cull you genius! But’ tled keys dren; they raced back and sat ‘And still--they lived at natant ht lite A a . began slowly. fights at which no admission will be” ewan ain sure the Captain will give the captain, and even Ryan lool ‘That, indeed, was the curious part One instant they lis. Pollard Finds the Answer. “And it ia not ao much the leak It- med, vidi Anke OF al KiINd® tw are we to take Salvato from You an interview,” he sald with the his genuine pleasure. Captain Velvet of it. Pollard felt It some time dure one instant more they looked SGN) ELD lowered self as what has followed it,” Pacato ce bart i oon Capt. Velvet the bandstand?” utmost courtesy. “He sent me do for 4 moment merely warmed them ing the fifth day, Every ache and snout And then, as one man, they gAPTAIN VELVE on lvato. knows the ; ate all a “LP can even tell you that. Well With the keys, tn fact, in the glow of his kindly eyes. ked b t] A in. of which the human frames stepped to the rail and dived straight his glasses only when Mr, You come and. talk to” hitr Do you fellera scare eaay?” he, tm * ov ble had wander ; a his “That we're getting ready to run ‘0 two equads o' m think it's about business too, sir.” quired ace heen nim: and mostly out “hey ¢ollowed Pollard and swam Mawirt returned 0 him put ofthe country, ah?” Inughed Cludes with a disgusting, impanstoned HyaPeecKe ok alande tris thet igit concluded the seaman, ax he went to a Wilt you try us?” asked Pollard, OF nim again. by this time, astern before turning landward: they B side. rom oe et Walk P'wouldn't worry theatric appeal to the herd’ sneered AUTON Ih aren ous about get- Work on Robert Pollard’s ruaty leg- “I will.” sald Captain Velvet beart His manicured hands were hard 98 emulated his little trick of dolng half “What more Ald about that, elthor, Now, just alt Pacato, vin jt he consocrates hie It ting at Salvato, ‘About ten thousand. 1Tonm fly, “Listen! I'm going to make my Jeather now, and ingrained with lead: y n yards under water and one Mr, MeWirt?” he inquired, there and don't fume like that, 11 to Santa Chanza pnd prevante wee people'll jump on ‘em, most. likely, asses friend Mike here president of Ganta sea lee eich beard altered his clas- ontop, and it was a@ (rving NIUE returning to a previous conversation, fix it some way or other I never nea Lite with the tremendoun, utterly Poi! wane they're Jumping. the. other CHAPTER XVIII. Chanse—tocnight. Got that?’ ‘ale profila to a degree, and bls head trick, too, ‘They were making tine, J ‘ehat 1 told you, air, She the revolution yet T couldn't run worthless mansion i) ioe RUDUFPA three'll gat him and rush bim out < “Yes,” the chief sald breathlessly. wc aPerown so weary of aching that to be sure, but the continual gliding | “Just Wht Nike a racehorse, through. How big's the Federal army which Be Lae Reon tering, ie sell at of the crowd, and wall, I'll attend Glorious Pickings Promised. — “And there's going to be alittle mens, ft had given up the effort to drive under the surface of the placid At- came up behind us like a race * now?" ; any, Br ee for ten eara te is to | * to him after that, Mike. That's tho 11K voice properly modu- Just as there always is when I make hin mad. And still, life survived lantic Kept one rather busy sir, an hour back, and—whoaver he "Four thousand men- five thousand, used as a home for the indigent age f Properly meted anybody president. ‘There’ going to him medin himself, but in the others, ‘The Shake, for example, wae 80 wag—megaphoned over to me to drop perhaps.” and at that point in, the manuscript cato, with a great lated will woothe excited fy” on shat a iittle wort of public OF Onn alae turning, Into a centred upon the performance that he NOs Meet oe ner when she "And how bg an army have you (e, an marked in, “parenthes Aone ween are sce Guite an affectivnly. ccc ine ona Caters ieee ceisl meen provers thinner, bewhinkered apparl- suspected nothing at all until an oar a © oer anead &0t toRether cop, When through weeping, 49 ion na drugs, The Snake, at picked men are going to walk up and srnaller uMformer self, burned red- struck bis shoulder, He shrieked stopped. Then they went off an “Five thousand men.” follows "T bet they will! grinned Capt. the sound of the able eva. Yank down the whining hound they tion of (his tovadeandcringing when aloud. A boat hook, catching neatly Ike we were golng backward, cap- Volvet have for preaident juat now and stick and, but od. Ane nd the Brute, in his shirt, tore away the shy i not before the Snake felt fl Hitting him into the Glory Wet and limp, the ham han; nt SaeG Kit) men of great intelligence ax Man's dulcet tones, clanked forward him in @ house somewhere till the The master of the bizarre warship ri woll!” added the President-elect, and blinked at him with @ doubtful meeting's over. T want to put you Are You Going Away for the Summer? MeWirt appre his jowls swathed in blue-black fur, plodded on grimly now, alive also, and certainly with many new muscles ttt warining swiftly "Wh shall wo itty r hich held, nevertheless, three fellers among the picked men; cast a last glance toward the Nitle Me eras a le amile, wi J P : ast a find them? ‘To do thin thing need oo viity of hope ha had not felt for ! fact, 1 want to put you in charge . apoone : roll ¢ tion : ‘i ‘ = aM or dropped Evans to the bottom of steamer well ahead of them, mot cunning. courage- of the highest or- of them, And that's all there ts ta It, a ete a enptony was breaking Ue cutter and reached for Pollard tegg now ax the Glory B. f. —-— der Vedra Heata for one! And Jone a week. Are you good for It or will a little ss : wit hat irritating, bored air tha ‘ EVES 6 i Area worl, too! And then, Velvet, perha . 6 goin“ to oo” hea i on ” , somewhat, too, ‘They alghted Bn seemed to he Se th hime The _“tRucss it's Mike, Mr, MeWirt” fh When you go out of town for the summer you may find it is] stanueto chi ad aa dal sede eared a wht Mi May montieg?’ he inland, far away, and noted Untid Spanish Brute, seeing these things, chuckled, | “THAts the Bonita, the PT gifficutt and costly to provide yourself with the right sort of reading | "Yep." the captain nodded approv. Gon't know, air” amiled IRC Ml snake inquired, H ar follage a tite aky bee merely turned and paddled meekly fastest boat of the Relampago Tow> ¢ al 'Phosm ate thres nice, bright, orman, “I'll release you in Just ® “Ste” don't amount to that!” mtd ¢ | dropped over the edge of the sly cutter and, gripping the xun- Ine Company, and M! the com- J Matter, : well-educated young fellers, Mike. moment, air.” Capt. Velvet, and snapped hts @in- Hl mies ely Ing tackle over the thrust his sparkling bine whise UK PON pi ey ered a boat.” Why send to the city for novels at $1,25 or $1.50 each or buy J They'll do fine for the squad t ‘And cut of the corner the Spanish gers, “Why, Jimmy, ['ve leked big- | Men were Heging tac into the sunshine and pleaded p i 1 py ad, sount ? snatches him away from the stand « i this one's going 1 forward hatch, too, which suggested n't soak me, bo! Don't soak “This Mike is quite a friend of | them ata fancy price in some country store AA Re athena’ Hrute lumbered noimily with the nearness of land and freedom yours, [ judge” MeWirt suggested You can Supply yourselt with the best, most delightful: summer ‘have to be pretty slick,“ listen, be! On the level, De we do it berehanded' they watched the men with consider He, too, was lifted into the eutter tfully reading for six cents a week. u muttered the captain wha he wotng te do with us now?" an. t aple interest as they worked. They and they were rowing slowly back co i sbi (ee A \ b Hin chin dropped and he hummed a oe seaman turned a large, ayinpa You can go armed to the teeth, watched with even greater interest to the Glory !t I again they i) By subscribing to The Evening World for the summer months | iitie tune “Later he glanced toward y1c4j. reassuring face and looke if you Uke when a mighty case, alleged on the seemed to have failed, ‘They would A sailorman. sir you will secure a complete novel each week. Not some olf book af the rail and the ham-handed colossus‘! RORUEINN) FOSS ®t : Senor} smiled brilliantly, stencil to contain @ granite monu- he taken aboard now and lash be- pe—president,’ said) the cap him ment, disgorged a rusty, breech= yond au It urred to the tain absently, ‘That is he will be Joading ¢annon. Three more followed Spanish Brute that they might even In a couple of days, Yos, sir, that's nd For a space the sauarely him, then he hing after a Klance at the captain. ail, sir, I'm sure.” he ‘They are exquisitely fitted for the country dealer has not been able t by the foremost living authors, sell, bit the finest up-to-date tiction 1 sud f ent roland atretehe he said. "UC think, my di ft and after them came other cases be tied to a mast and lashed, and be Mike In the boat!” (ei i 4 cab vi \ odd suddenly. sg maid, beckon. Mitt ery wently, us Pollard atrotched toate Be welt oo ite frank with Hom which gun-carriages were as- sighed and clasped his hands Tle face beamed real pleasure as Bear this in mind, not only for yourself but for any of your friends ing to the giant, himself and the Snake held up his oie to theen-afterward.” sembled, Robert Pollard, too, felt that the the little craft ran alongside the who expect to spend the summer in the country. Runyan and othera in the long ago shackled hands. "The captain considered heavily, ‘And when the four 4-inch affairs end was at hand. Flery-eyed, he Glory B, Hoe waited at the head of wave birth to many wonderful ‘The juntor member's amile loat ite (To Be Continued.) > The Book on the Stands Will Cost You $1 x You Get It for @ Cents. NEXT WEEK’S COMPLETE NOVEL @IN THE EVENING WORLD® THE SORCERER'S STONE By BEATRICE GRIMSBHAW