The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1914, Page 9

The Evenin CAPTAIN V Capyright, The Frank A. Mimsey Company.) OF PRECEDING OHAPTERR. Velvet, a rich ofd aatlor of fortane and Geemoter of revolutions, comes to New York to © battled with which to start & revolution bie trend Miguel Pacato in Santa Chanea, It fe the Captain's first visit to fifty years, He wears @ $90,000 carries $180,000 in elieexs and Ho ts at once "a clevereat, us away fr whole army Captain Velvet stood erect, elderly man, “There’ othing more to be sald,” he announced. “You go down to my cabin and find my razors, boys. I'll have ‘em bring you some nice, hot ater, and quick’s we get ashore— it's all day steaming to Relampago from here in this craft—I'll buy you all white clothes, so you won't stand out from the crowd like, And now run along; I've got to talk with Mike @ spell. He patted their backs and beckoned imperiously to the ham-handed sallor. That person appeared almost as soon as Mr. McWirt himself and quite po- Itely led them to the captain's cabin. He bore steaming hot water and Poured it for them; he laid clean tow- els on the captain's bunk, and sald that the razors were in the little cup- board. And when he was gone the Spanish Brute considered his chief for & minute, as did the Snake; and the Brute voiced the sentiments of both and Velvet arrange to Kidnap the lit- when he stepped forward awkwardly eaident Guring an opm air meeting. and said apologetically: : t the three crooks shail make & = “IT want to tell you, Bob, that I the crowd, under cover of which well, T take back any little kicks shall be abducted. T've been putting up. 1 guess — Picked this old guy right, after all those orders with your a happy apt if : if g g U one of the Captain’ Doyhornl trio eter the unsuspecting old man Redborongh and take a suite of oil i! for him and for themselves, Alter Attempts to rob him they hit on « the Captain Imockout drops, He scheme and ahanghales all three, tak- board the rattietrap steamer on which Banta Chansa, Next moming they @ateroom fat out at sea, The tet, hie only officer, set the trio hhamlest ship jobs to be found, Ot the rerolutionist leader comes bt 17 feet sear ift: HH Peet i [ t z i a The chief, stropping his razor, CHAPTER XVIII. amiled eerendiy, (Continned.) “T guess I did, Bill," he said mod- estly. “I think so." When the sun was touching the horison they dropped anchor just in- 2 side the long harbor of Relampago, they're going through and at the rail atood Captain Velvet, with it, Mike, before I studying the distant city with obvious tell ‘em anything about pleasure. At his side stood the shaven the reward,” he sald. trlo, who also studied It with pleasure, bak sineo it promised leisure for life at “You have ee a F Arlt such slight risk quickly, and added artlessly: = Presently a spendy little gas-launch sonally I'm willing to undertake this came skimming down the harbor and first job without sharing in the pro- drew up alongside the Glory B., and 1s, captain, by way of making up Captain Velvet turned to his first— for some of the bother we caused you Glorious Pickings Promised. 66 WANT their word that and second and third—officer. “Well, thera she li Mr. MeWirt,” before—tefore we realized just what ho said’ “and T dunno's I'd fire that you were.” salute T mentioned unless T send @ ye peated, al eatin aS . it," protested man out here with word. In case 1 He beamed, alinost too sweetly mrepucare SHIA oF Me do, you might drop down about a {he suKury excess Was by nO means the good captain and leaned far back. lost on vans, mile nearer town: or If you happen “Well—Mike tells me to be frank, 80 fh nna that lax of MIkeR oe te eee “dust an old manta Joke," he said, I may as well be just that, You see, where, you might let her so, anyway. Siecle ust an old man’s joke, boys, Mike'll be boss of tho country Don't allow anybody on b and He sw pred to a table by one of that's all, 1 think, he said to the trio, Two brown men manned the swift with 1 little launch. ‘They removed thelr ner sign branded, “Plaza Libertad.” caps and showed their teeth when It was a spacious, open square, Capt. Velvet appeared; they bowed with two of the short blocks on either some thirty-five or forty times and side. Some few trees there were wna Com: on boys." the curtain twenty-four hours from now, and I'll lowed help a little, and so will two or three more. But there's mighty fow people in it, after all, and the pickings are big!” pt. Velvet paused for an 1 windows, and they fol- ani, seated, looked out sity at what the cor- uM effective sive seconds of US Chattered greetings In a strange grass, and almost in the centre what that get in at the beginning will stay tongue, And at the alght of them seemed to be a bandstand; yet {twas im to tho end, just picking, and the and the rather bored manner jn Not these things that captured Pol- = 1 way off.” which captain received their lard’s attention—it waa the curious end's a long . xreetings Pollard thrilled queerly, air that seemed to hang over every. “Are you speaking of just plain, The captain represented power here, thing. gafe political graft?” Pollard asked, and for once they were on the side of Ile could not name ft, and still it respectable power. seemed to exist. Out there in the foyfully. han, thats abe; thrilled @ good deal more when plaza nicht had fallen and electric “Oh, ite better than . . ran into a@ little private dock, lights were gleaming everywhere, gmiled the captain. “It's a whole lot some squares from what appeared to and as the leader's quick eyes tra better than that. Down in Santa be the business section of the elty, elled about circles of light fell upon Some two dozen men were grouped faces and wavin, Chanza, when things aro TUDNINE here out of sight of the streat, and id right, a man hardly takes off his hat too, bared their heads and on earth is Salvato?” he without paying so much to the proper with amazing respect, denly, "I catch that name ities, We have what they call buttonholed the captain and econd or twe 5 autbor’ y to him; and he released him. That's their resident,” smiled the @ bureau of exports that ought to seit prose! nd permitted the mast © ptain. ; i lobby. There's twenty important of the gentlemen to escort — "Then what docs this here ‘Viva jest galt you, Robby them to a walting mobliie, to see Salvato!’ mean” the Snake ins thousand a year, United States, in \it—that's salary, and they use it for quired nervously, “Oh, that's just some of their non- them comfortably settled, and then, hat in hand, to watch the liveried ng money, you know, The real negro drive ‘them swiftly down the sense, T guess, son," sald Capt, Velo ratio i hot, narrow little strest vet. “They're just a hi 0 4 4 come in the system. ok, Narre ttle stree! e ey re st a happy-go-luct | opel § ‘of cuftee that goes out Followed a pause at a rail, ready- lot—always yelling somethin Miyrono cent. public, to the bureau, made clothing establishment, where — He plunged into sudden. discussion the trio discarded their battered gar- of the bill of fare with Pollar and three cents, private, to the head lb ments and blossomed out in spotless merely nodde was poring i vou ship any coffee?” the Snake White; and it is noteworthy that they stream of Spanish toward the walter, asked, warily. eean hii no ernationy all by a thin, black-eyed n with a bulge. “ , ne captain paid fe he things with jn eit nae! whe! i. cepa Pres wenty milllon pounds 411, "thom the selfaume collection of th Hite entbon cer? when the Span Pras q banknotes they had failed so dis. ¥ os Lead me to that bureau," erlod Tintneten they ten at 2 Robert Pollard, and hia volce came 5 " Carefully he a icked out i 4 snaped the Snake, Sas dimealty, ocantela, 1 F dont Knot of Nay eeatia Aten nag NER Baar rie You got ite | know what to say! oF @ collection of small notes from un- Waa ee holiest ee Ober { you I fel auch a piker that ——" der the thousand dollar one; : as Just hollering It. i “Yeas, and—by ginger, Mike." °" fully he had twisted the twine and 1, we're tn here to eat, Till, ploded the captain, “doesn HM. tied tt again; and thour sald the captain, loudly. "Tt wouldn't there, measure up for the chief of {,) the national police?’ . ‘A splendid man—splendid!" smiled bother Matening to that rabble.” “All the same, T got ears, Cap, and h skirt once that was hiulf 1 that there must he twenty thousand dollara’ in plain siicht, they no more than smiled hap. © Senor Pacato, " Dily, for they had come to the hind the Brute said, unexpectod- A . ae 4s. The ¢ rolled an again, this > Bily you were gaye beller. Yuu could hantie that at a certain corner, and the everybody's sick of." soe Pil. PU ja Ran. jane motioned Shon 10 Vel bathed him in his i ob for tim. hey did t ha Mike's cousin held down th job for captain linking arms with “PUL ho sad, “ain't you got sense four years once, years ago, an PO TRRTA OFS. a oa and the others stepping alone behind, enough to know tha The streets of Relampaxo see racer: see his a time like ’ this, When he knows he's at the end house. Right in the heart of town, iy “4 midise: keno “, J n¢ park around (and a f0.be Ming up rapidly; note of of his rope, Nalv: going to hire private street leading down to nt eee ie eee intortane amet Jorge out there and cheer?’ steam pen h Brute nodded humbly, Ja#bbering | with happy to me’ Cap,,"" the Brute aald, enn panish Brute | * Btreams of people walked bi ously = he sald, "EL want to beg your frreams of Sou eaieee ea ai ; pardon for the crack t adasiam. ‘Ie At least every second man removed tuin continued’ cries eeie aa ceed hia hat to the captain and every joudiy did the captain order, too, un d ow, © laughed #econd one of the astoundingly pretty til the ine ; ore ee te eae endo mith dime Mikes™ — Three squares, and they turned nto dwn hte cactus ity Viatbly and tale ryhat ahall we do a a narrower way, hurried along it and je. int i SL AUB. ted The Federal Treasurer"—auscgent- % narrower way, hurried Wusiaam’ appeared to have 4 Senor Pacato. halt ‘te pa mons. Capt. Velvet slapped his thigh through @ ailent stre “There must he a million people out “Righto!” anid he. "You #aid it houses, and then quite suddenly tore captain” the Snake ath wee firat clip, Mike.” And then he laid a Plunked back into the heart of activ- yyy Do th ways come out at ntler hand on the Snake's lean {ties Sine: nore and were ait but nient like tha ‘ nee. “Y'know, son, the Federal shoved atraicht up a narrow atalrway SAqcave, Drinking anything, Jim Treagurer alone counts all the new a lL my" They have pretty good” money a# soon as it's made, Any When they had come to the top of And the captain said no more for a he doesn't need personally the stairway. wondering A litte, ay Yo tittle while. Out In the plaza the goes Into revlation, Does it aound ot vervedl that Tatirhede that ine Stowing crowd rumbled and rumbled od, . v4 ey a <a bend aude y er wecCaptain,’” cried the Snake, and his sent a wolld minute looking down: ys deni the rumble ery: bewhiskered face was glorified. “L ward to the street, as if expecting °"y 2 alvato! Viva Sal it came, to die a when little beads of perspiratio out on Captain Velvet's forehe the. ply with glittering eves through the ett tains, hats were just ceasing to wave id handkerchiefs to flutter, And the of faces under the corner arc= lamp were animated and forceful and, It seemed to be followed, before rapping thrice upon a white door Within, loc used to say [ wouldn't leave New York for a million; but 1 wouldn't back to that poor, cheap little Bure now for ten ‘mitlions—not tin: lesa you went along to live! ‘The captain looked at him fondly and then at the other “Te It settled, then?” he asked, “It {s," said Pollard The good soul put ttled_ mysteriously and the doors opened, just a crack, and one black eye appeared; and then the door was thrown wide open and the captain was saying sharply: aight in there—quieck! ‘The door clicked on his heelx and the locks rattled again, Captain Vel- 1. In as the Snake peered out out both his hands. vet glanced quickly about a dusky to the Snake, generally “Then let bygones be bygones, and jittle second-floor two Villainous tn cast. They hinted, some. we'll all work together!” he cried ap- tables of which w each how. at stilettos, dark alleys, and parently from the bottom of his hy two men. Ate fthem aman masks honest heart, roxe, looked straight at the captain, Tt appeorof that some such nervous They took the hands and wrung and thon, crooking the first two fine notion had reached the Spanish Brute, them afresh. Following Pollard's gers of his right hand, straightened too He turned away from the seana lead, they also shook hands with crooked them again, and sat witha ferk: his eves met Evans's for Senor Pacato once more; and when 1 moment ind then he spoke bluntly they had quite finished, that gentle captain permitted himself a man was still looking sharply at them of relief, to's worth about elght 6 said: t's all right” he chuckled eh? ‘There will be no backsliding, g@n- "That's Mike's private sign. In “Tecause he'd have to be to pay all tlemen? You will follow orders to glad they're getiing together, 1 those people to holler for him—and the letter in the sacred cause of Iib- more'n half expected we'd all be he didn't," sald Ryan, “From what T erty?” shot down before we got here," can see, Salvato's a pretty popular The chief of the desperate band Expected what?" asked the Snake guy in this town.” smiled almost pityingly at him shakily. “Well, Bil,” said the captain mild. “Bir,” he sald, “you couldn't drive Capt. Velvet started a little: then ly, “mebbe he is in some quarters, ED $160,000 K men and that ain't ws ut up, shut up! ‘em are da man, and i “Say, y shutting up asked the st His mournful, frigh ed steadily upon his ¢ moved une: then, looking up covertly, gaze still upon him, His Was curiously dry, too; t eke tet, no reason at all; and somot And then, n the Plaza in the still ro minute before Evans ¢ “Say, for the love « kind of a tune is that? stand listene nf the unexpected sound an ttt ir-raising strains flov He it confessed, then, was waiting the bh on. ghastly. “Well, It's a start a. celebration with think,” he said hoarsely. “PF ing, Bu" For Freedom’s Sa temperamental, extent, the grow titude grew qu the bandstand, wily to avold the g found the his fingers were turning tee cold Mike, “Three funerals, and it's something Thever saw in the cards before as if that wasn't bat enough, two of one And a light Will you the Brute cried gustily ing to do any Snake. ned eyes rest. Pollard we, and n throw! ends f hing was creeping, creeping up his spine. without warning, the crash of brass from the big band Libertad. came hey’ nearly a what Robert Vollard Jumped an inch at of his voice. He ran a@ finger about the collar of his new shirt and gulped down his glass of warm water; and the Brute nawer, while Aon and that the smile Pollard turned upon his museu- lar ald was no less than downright it's a queer tune to T should tut that's Chopin's Funeral March they're play- CHAPTER XIX. ke. ELAMPAGO, apparently, was To some ing mul- t as the melancholy air flowed from So did the Snake, to a degree, as he covered the cards with two shak- ing hands, by way of hiding their ootwae if, be, but"-—- faces; and so did William Ryan, was as far an yan got bette he Whose mouth twitched and whose caught Robert Pollard’s cold and stil fingers tren so violently that Taher Chouded Sye only at the fifth attempt did he suc- Out in tho plaza None ba Mane ceed in kindling a cigar from the iene Nara pouring. thousands. into box on the table. So, for that matter, the mob in thick, White-clad streams did Robert Pollard himself. of humanity that strotched now i pollard's teeth were shut tieht to- far as the ©: cou eh, ° 6 working to keep the clear, While the crowd more and more solid, return to his cheeks, Yet the music came toe end at last, and Ryan passe . “eve upon the lawns. masne Food came; and while Capt. vet ate with gusto, his guests bi touched their plates, Men entere myateriously—-some through a tiny door in the corner of t om, some gether and, for a time, despite every effort of his will, the color would not merciful da drip- ping finger across his brow as he bby, are you sure about that cks as they themnelv Their chief started and tried to part, they were quick, smile his old, car sinile, tle men: they looked abont invariably ~ “of course, Why until they had located Capt. Velvet «Thon who were they playing it and made the sign of the crooked gor?” the Spanish Brute asked, fingers, “Yes, and haven't you felt a sort After that they drifted to tables; of funeral march playing inside your- and while lere and there a man self ever since we've beon in this sipped at a 88, of them ap- queer little bunk?" the Snake tn- peared to be eating. The tenso ir, Urea ott” anapped P erio jathing th, 5 vave no re rie ed to inhale with every breath, — “Well, L have,” the Junior member to hear in every sound from the said unsteadily t got into my plaza, grew more marked. bones the second that door closed ter Us. The Snake could stand their own silence no longer, and he looked at the good captain with a drawn little sinile your fac Jim, please don’t 1 ourself just do it so perfectly is. meeting we're—coing to at- tend,” he said jerkily—“it’s In some little hall somewhere, isn't it "the id you've got It, too, Kobby. and it's in the air, and it's It's been there ever since, Iv's in oan ass of scause you're able to Jo" " sted angrily. “Iam nervous “Hall? No. tain pushed au 4 de ap- Ladmit it. There's nothing unnatural hack his plate and laid aside his nap- 1 tdmit it. Theres nothing unn “ 3 vich alot this last week hen where is i" the Snake quintity of thinks We sputtered, suspicion flaming in bis (ee Oe ee ern eye a that's to be expec 1 “Well, if there isn't Manny Ferera 5 a strange country and @ himecif’” exclaime n Velvet, ty, That sort of thing al- he warn and rose to burt S upsets you to some ex tent.” little room and t aman in tobby, I've hit a lot of strange the corner, who spoke quickly and towns in my time, generally with the waved his hands in a new direction Sherif not more’ than three jumps at every word. hind,” said Rys eravely; “but © “Robby! said the Snake. » never saw the fown before where I “You be quict-it's all right!” eontin't e: snapped the leader, ‘And of course the wrath The junior member subsided With eftine ploce of work 1 of us, A cross between a erunt and a an. we feeling the strain that, Some seconds he stared out again at suppose, Mard cone : the swaying, shuffling mass of hus tlently, We've never © into a manity below their window, and then public bullding—T suppose it's a pub: he could endure the sight’ no more, tie building-—and yanked out the star His cards, carefully dried, carefully performer; but that's no reason for placed in the new pocket, came out, sitting here shakini: over tt." ind he spread them upon the table James Evans laid an fey hand on and shuffled throweh th mondily, Bis ehjet And while Pollard watchet with a | "Then quit tearing that bill of fare sneer, he did not interfere, The to pieces, Robby, he said, and his Snake was on edge, and, when strong forefinger vibrated over a card —"and lay ahead n better Fo. lonk at this." “What “That one means a cinner an the cards moved about, the crept out visibly throueh NF ae sunburn, His twitching hands this next one ts. the. works shuffled the cards and spread them ea wok at it," the Snake 4 out afresh: and ax he stared at them sist a strange little ery of genuine terror bh ss, Tae left_hia chalky lips. “And then look at the next threa “Robby, d'ye know what's here?” —one, two thre. Funerals! Dinner he gasped., —work—funerals! “f don't know and I don't care!” seit Pollard sald the chief shortl ; his yonn “Robby, whispered the Snake. t to fly in th “this is the second time I've dealt of the cards for? What has it got ‘em out, «nd they came exactly the Us, 80 far, this pooh-pooh stuf of same both times. Look! There's yours? Whint did these cards sag Just three funerals!” before wa met him? What di “What? gasped Pollard, and the say when we woke up 6 junior member had the sod satixfac- tub? What did T ever tlon of seeing him turn a shade paler, raid that wasn't dead right When you go out of town for the summer, you may fir difficult and costly to provide yourself with the right matter. Why send to the city for novels at $1.25 or $1.50 each them at a fancy price in some country store? 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Not some old book a HAw nd it is Ms or buy fon friends that, “You, here and and fire him ow tion ¢ World Daily Magazine, Saturday: May 9: 1914 HIS In A Complete Novel Each Week in The And Jimmy might be right now at the Spanish Brute put in, Velvet seo him might having of the whole propos and | don't know that 1 should PO look hys' By Edgar Franklin BURN TO TROUBL Bte Author of statulation were muttered at @ strange tongue, and then: ‘Just try one trick and thr dead men! By-by!" said cane of sound arose, cheera and Preams, shouts and joyful bellows. t Pollard turned to the open Casement and stared out: and the Snake loaned on one shoulder, while Willlam Ryan leaned on the other, over ries, “door clicked behind KETS, ON BROADWAY== Capt. them. be sorry,” sald thetr chief, And then — fidiam iteclf had n let loone ad lay a little stairway, dark save he exploded: “What in blazes js the down the Little 3 ive poloen n, yne little 2 matter with you two, anyway? Think yrinning, chattering, shovinss trove sttom, There was a black pass of the easy thing we've picked off and to hold back the surging horde, and Sire beyond, and at either side of Ite cheer up in the centre of the horde a big au- entrance two grim little brown mem bei "at relieved himself tomobile had been stalled for the mo- stood sig a ment. Their eyes were eager as théy he sald, “would a tight- people climbed on the running- looked upward and w, silently wad like him, that owes us two thous hoard and aliticked a4 they tried to 1 trio—and the trio pat sand dollars right Ww. ever lot US take the hand of the bic, smilini natant and listened to the Dick off anything easy? On the lovel, plack-halred man in the who sat eof locks In the litte restaurams, would h among some six or seven of and the subdued hum of talk that T m otnder discussion, hav- rouheat-looking characters Pole had followed their exit. ing in their direction for the “, with all his wide experience, “Do we do it? asked the Snake, second thie, aauniered back to the had’ ever agen. “W not!" answered Pollard. happel And took his placa, chuckling A hat flew atratght into thete wine | “Hl tus if we don’t!" gas etal ieaneate ea maue {he dow: from the balcony of the next the pop-eyed Ryan, “IL got falth You fe Ty, NOY? Dee eat ay Howse @ shower of flowers rained that kind of a promise when that ‘ou fee ¥, hey? Do you know down on the automobile, and the big Kuy maken it!" t reminds nn of something that man looked up and bowed; they n od He may, Pollard’s white lips sald ppened K ia the winter of that he owned as wicked a face an almost undiessiy. “You take the rhe ane and CH tell you about ever decorated mortal man, His teoth little fellow down there; we'll tike pho MA, With too much viKor. Were. fi ex anapped in a the big one, Don't let ono squeak Hn tit he 1 hooked purely bi fashion, his heavy get out of him.” , ellow by the name of fine we el bi 0 Freddy Harke, and eS 5 Pong } er RHE And then, some three seconds “Say, excune Shaki “TN see art, anyie down Salvato be “That's Capt, Velvet said blandly. bp. "Could you * Ryan b much getting th About i's getting away safe, wat tet You won’ “And is thor ac rying ust the lev pw 1% hing there going to be much of lard persisted, that'll worry me, captain said impatiently. “Weil, it isn't so much what's wor- * the Snake |, captain, Is the Vato sentiment in thie town”? Capt. ptain,” waid the “ave Freddy b in eighty-three for Just a little w and tell me where this mee pu there s tain smiled evasively ly; 1 guess you'll have to excuse me, “it ain't so Im thinking ‘oke tn. 0 nate be bothered about that smiled 4 1 was saying” Pollard, watehing him with growing ¥, leaned closer, raid HM have to beg y suid with some de. but L wish you'd make n smiled forgivingly, “there won't be a all you don't understand at the per time” “But the work's going to be pulling re he can speak?" ia it, Velvet looked in the eye, ly. And from a alvato! Salvate Nearer the sound deafening roar rose alavto! Sal sea thera isn't thinly, ¢ “That's what 1 table. ond, Cap, We"— Oddly enough, Pollard noted that muscular assistant was on the verge of an outburst, and still did not Instead, his quick ward the good captain, ightly startled expression at dead silence he place, rap! rap! rap! rap! sounded from the little door in his seek to atay him, eves shot t noted his upon and, fell the corner, Th ping: too. pruptly guosts; ot a bit, aon," he sald soothing- + “There fan't @ bit—really!” considerable distance the roar of the mob came faintly, owed, growing and growing with each new wave. Hate were flying asal brought forth a six-foot banner and was waving it; and as some five hun- dred men cheered wildly about it the thing was rained and they caught the “Salvato” fn letters a foot long. From y, the street beneath their window the tho Snake waid hey hate him!" it of ‘em do, Jim,” the captain informed him, “Thoy”’—-= jut take it from me, you he careful with people that guise thelr feolings like that began angrily, and leaned acrosa the “So Just look a here for a sec~ re was an emphasis to the rap- altogether different from those that had heralded the several mysterious and ng is "the cap- ow, roke in, » much Bal- } #ome one had omen had raced up, ed axide the crowd, don, In the cen. nd Pollard fifty or sixty pol smo, and ty utomobite mov tre of a hollow square, caught himself Inquiring “Captain, who's that ‘The captain hesitated a moment “Well, that Was Salvato, I quess,” he confessed. hight without “On his way to the meeting?” 8 “Most likely," yawned Captain Vele their way to realizing just means to be struck by a New thug, Pollard went down the in @ series of leaps. The little at the end was locked; he tore It ok about who laid It on the floor and sound. eee How when two Santa Chanzans were 08 hat it York door from its hinges and passed it to the Brut vet They were nearly dono runping, to t “And where's that meeting? be sure; their breath came in Velvet. Where's that meeting, and how many of agony, and perspiration reinga oft ms Crary KU are going to be from them; yet for the sake of the Snake demanded. “You mean where's Salvato going to speak, Jimmy?" the captain asked and raced on and on, . “And where we"— the Spanish at first, and then Brute began hoarsely. rieht out there on the grand stand, I believe,” he sald ‘Thres dead seconds passed, while Misuelo Pacato looked from one to the other of them in astonishment. “And we «o out there and yank that mountain out of the middie of a mill- fon of his frienda?” the Snake gasped then “Well,” asked Captain Velvet, ‘on't yor" nt in twenty thousand years #creamed the Snake. “Why, you cold- blooded old"— jentlemen! Gentlemen!" — cried Pacato, “I do not comprehend, but in the » of a moat kind Heaven, let there be no dissension at this in, gulping and choking, fon out. the @econda before: “What's—the searchlight?” ‘On And very unexpectedly a nitaiaht longed to 4n aged Santa th strations in the world swered Pollard polite! own personal freedom they end And there was something about this last street that choored them-—a sniff of salt water the sound of @ whiaule, out in the harbor, and after Captain. Velvet looked straight over that a gilmpse of the water front their heads lights themscives, “Why, Salvato's going to speak And now, pell-moll, they had you're after his chief, into the Relampage © bounded almost the full length of dock before they were able to pull with the wavelets of the harbor lapping the piles below and @ long pencil of white Nght sweeping the skies from further Pollard studied the light for mang came from almost beside him. It be ‘hansaa, who preferred to sit and emoke er's edge in the quiet event rather than witness all the demon- and it an- . “Kea war-sheep. Estados Unidos! crucial moment, See! It ta ar ranwed, ta it not?” yet Epasien Brute crouched and He turned to the captain, and the captain nodded grimly, “Tr'n nll arranged, Mike,” he eatd; and he fastened a steely eye on the thres who had been lured to him by @ gaudy diamond ring. “Now, as for lieten and get your orders atraicht. ‘Thin in the firat job I've ever trusted you with, and it's only a little one, but T want it done right. The mayor of this town's going to intro- duce him—ee? He's beginning now, and he'll take about seven minutes, Then Salvato gets up to speak. Ry that time T want you out beside that bandstand. ‘The aecond he begins to jan and holler—understand? n to climb up on the band- stand and try to grab him, Just try, but don't touch him." They merely stared, atupefied. “And that's all you have to do,” concluded the captain. “Hustle!” “And what happens then?" the Snake whispered, “I've got fellown out there that! get him while the excttement’a on ‘That's all we ask.” “Tht ft inn't all we aak, onptein® Pollard put in #hakily, “What hap- Pena to us when that mob begins to Jump on us? “Well, Robby." sata the captain, “If T couldn't fieht my way out of @ Nttla passel of people ike that"— “Did _ you—say—United base? Jp he croaked. man. “Splash! ash! = Splashi* the harbor of Relampago. . There was a very new who strolled the deck of the ehip besid the soft nta Changan he, of sailors the older one smiled cally. have to an din- Ryan tives, you know. But it ‘ellent excuse to offer for free passage home,” be sald. “It pena, you know.” And just there « sailor himself from the group aad his cap. “I don't think they're quite alr,” he reported, “No, sir, not by any means, word, eli queer, too. if I wouldn't send word to the tain and have the a on that flagpole again,” the elder ensign inquired, “Fully, air. It's # good bit wound States nor,” said the placid off Bhe anchor to-night he" slightly older ensign ua they approached the little knet cya “They may be @rink-maddened nas Americans be sure they'll SS hap- But one of them stands there and he hasn't spoken @ and the big one's aeting He asked me three times “Have they got their win@ techie” seemed to have galvanized the whole “And in any cana, why discus this wim, but they’ve recovered establishment now?" Pacato demanded, foverishly. part of ft,” eaid the sailor. . ith One “What has this to do with the great Then ha atepped anide and thee With one Impulse men rose to thelr fret, A walter slipped quickly to the Work of the moment—with the cause #igna looked curiously at three Be= door that had adm’tted them and ran Of trio freedom? Hear me! You draggled figures that mtght a heavy tron bar through two brack- Shall not he forgotten! T—I, Miguelo trailed at a} ets. Another, who had appeared to Vacate, myself awear to you that the way from home. One of them, bw in charge of the place, hurried to In the very centre of the Plaza TAber- best appearing, merely leanod tho little door in the corner and jerked *A/ shall be erated = manument”—— the after terre, Bia head Se ‘the {t open, and a rather forlorn figure 4,4 ~- what?" asked the Spanteh EE Ears r rushed In ute Q unged Wound tn a ra anket from | "A monument meh aw shall dwarf me iuit iookine alone with the h foot, 5 Hidden Qvery other monument in South uncanny mixture of Joy and bewila py a raged wide-brimmed pat, An \mertea—a shaft of pure white mar- derment in his eyes. But the hints instant blick sit fron ble from your own Tnited States!” who happened to be the largest bya heneath it; an ingtint mon chattered the tmminent president cried. “And Waod deal, came forward under breath, and then thay had On the base shall be emblazoned tn Mister," he said, “me and Mronged about the neweomer, and letters of pure gold: *To the intrepid friends are fugitives’ from justice | quick hands were taking the hat and three who perished in the cause of New York. We want to ask and aye shock f m, the Kindly if you'll take us back neath the former, ir which had showed and which Not this three, bo! the @nake pmed choked clne—and rive un to the right on this bateship and nowhere t0-entnn Away Penally enrich: “And vour names and the date will please? We're willing to work like A quick murmur ran through the follow, of course, and sailors siehting ain, miater,” the Spaniah Brute pleads wroup; three men de! them. !t far 9 1 will murmur a prayer,” ed. "Only, for the love o' Mike, don' selves and stepped to the little door #0 Senor Pacato, "T mwear ft! make ua go back——- in i corner ind stood at attention, Now go!" And at HAL a seond the white penetl each with a ton revolver in his hand, — "Well, before any patlor’— Poll Pin Beteraceg ine. sient Cn) ' And fut, there ‘ apts Velvet hegan with pallid lips ek the farce tran eeerteats ir mad, turned ta. then, ing avatn, “You get out there and make some # AERO Tr i. ee Acthats Mi explained with hiatory, dod wast anapned the pe Whore it 4017 Rid, OU fee Shatin simple pride. "He came in disculaed captain, And then ha caught Py Swit iit ‘That old go coer an i) be rs na that wae my sug Vaeve "You ain't going to% “Tr 9 flag. fluttered Clantis te tke fun eation, by the way, | You woe—— Int” anaried the chief of the tent and the won in 6 04 extend a hand to UT nav, Haakina he eee tate the r ubire sidont of Von hia shoulder, "T gag of Santa Ch 7m Banta Changs acknowledzed the soe tle Wanted Ke tee Te aaa moved ae leflys the prewt. ‘eam vadual . a ' 3 ns IE shee Matha aeaRe jaunts yan s Fe earuanie aa Ht ted “} and the elder ensign smiled eynteally, stave eon a excitement He wich a demonstration, or I'd i. fancy It's the same old tiag,* be (eis Mack aves elittered and he anoke have wat von ont there bnforn We te. AAld "but no end of things ean bap nn ates whiners to mnthar, And T may may that pen down this way. Queer thingy ray and to hurt anvhody'a fe g Care, ’ “Ww army" ou dle one th o i" are! thare'a oni hve SOG ime ani can be tn th n geod captain, and drew two long ree raven! who Itves in Relampago no litem, and To have. ft volvers from’ hia holutape T believe” And he turned patrontis- nHARAAT IR Ly ingly to the Snake and aad: “I trusted th wat nitowether A hove hare ape for anything, Miles Wis Under window adm! od beneath the mused {squarely at him for an int: the Snake voteed three eons I set wed. thatr pparent own, (THR The Book on the Stands Will Cost You $1.20 You Get It for 6 Cents. AND.) man, did van ever, by any chance, tus hear of a fellow they call Captain Mitte, HT guess we're eotng, boys! Valvet, over theret” nthinker!® «pf pumas Neth a ‘great tha caps ‘The Snake stiffened wmddeniy as = “Got tout the back man might stiffen tf turned to atone, straleht for the bands JUST one second hia dilating eves Ahare in terre ted upon the ensten. ‘The eyes the sist Grop son where There was nv loud, atckeningt Theae sound, Tt had hean caused by the rendy too ready had Shakets head striking the deok. ere hist They appoarad tole — Well, my wo: Rasped the elder Maral Hands ensten. ‘The poor chap dropped . ee