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The New York Adventures of a Soldier of Fortune : Who Carries $3,000,000 Around With Him —== BY EDGAR FRANKLIN == |} Ai Captain Veivet’s Weleome G Megerigts, 1014, by Front A, Muneey Company.) “Robby,” bog aont wKORD “thank you bing GENOPSS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, ant very brig, but X waa Pretty he — well — well — well”—— said William bt yg yo Nerd pon “And now u we S; Capt. Velvet roared. "Hey, You runt His fiery settled on the Snake, as hand and the side of the other. broke my skull!” James 1 t sete ‘tea to, James. You won't left, busted or of be Hs a8 come here!” Troret “Bes that chalk line? Well, @tand on the far side of it, the bull aneakin’ passel of ye!” lyin’, 2 In Mr. Robert Pollard’s body there CHAPTER XIV. The Spanish Brute, both large Mente ; ; stroking @ ewelling jaw, could no (Continued. more than bold a tottering erect posi- Vietory! on; while James Evans, clutching bis own crant Cy EB came to the mysterious reeled diszily w! ‘he tried ta walk: chalk-line and paused @ Yet they managed to face Capt. moment to study it. sti Velvet quite as he directed, the captain's whole atten- por and toad cour tg one my tom tion was on the sparkling the fish,” he eal ‘water ahead. oo. it e crew for A tremendous thrill went through much’ considorstion esip 7m, cummed Robert Pollard. If ever a man's mind We're going to assume now it had strayed miles from his person, you're reveriate aad Shere ain’ Captain Velvet’s mind had done it 9 now. His whole soul was lost in the the spot, Undertary meets snot on Lavinia's race. “I wouldn't cross that line for’— After all thetr striving and etrug- Bail: Ryan began. gling, after all their suffering and “Now get for’ard and ot } terrors and disasters, he was actually 2nd, Obey orders as I rive, ‘a gid J within their clutch at last! @ Captain snapped. . “James, git aloft and shake - | “Robert Pollard, therefore, dropped ‘They obeyed.» Ut ‘hat toperlt hig hand incons;icuously to the cool _ After a few anxious minutes the ‘rubber butt of his revolver and saun- 74vinia gollea giddily, far over to tered on. port, and stayed there. And, hav- ing hit the new an, The captain squinted aloft amd then find pleasure In tt fee ‘age neemed to r she bel concentrated his whole attention on P&nged on at markedly lt _ the Eleanora, a little way to port. Speed. The topsail, apparently, was Now Mr. Pollard could have reached ‘They had rounded ; at and touched him, and still he sus- that they had all (repitoedoy he ted nothing. Hg batat, and far back there Captain And now, by all that wan astound- mig wheel and beaalnn iy, over { ing, Mr. Pollard’s ugly revolver was piness werything in eight, the @irectly under Captain Velvet’s use, Kipanora and her ‘companion, who : ( and Mr. Pollard was shouting: othe hoe Wore loitering up %) “throw up your hands, or I'l blow ““Ropert Pollard’ cloned oma Beem | your head off!” dered. For the time he was as / ‘The Snake and Willlam Ryan, Putty. re clutching one another fur an instant { glazed eyes, staring about, took in hagy detail ‘Mke two frightened children, waited on the water, On tee rae inde for the dreadful thing that would on the shore itself, Whistles were happen to Robert Pollard—and it aid bowing again and flags were waving; the silly little cannon was boom!: mot happen! away irresponsibly; and the Span! Captain Velvet, the absotutely fear- Brute, on hie feet beside Mr. Pollard \ Jess, throw up his hands eo suddenly choking: : that the wheel wéxt spinnitig!™ Ao.” Ke We won by queer shiver ran through the Lavinia. [ugh wants a ee poll ; More, even! He stood there with said the captain. ‘ “panas aloft and eyes and mouth wite 'm going ashore for a spell. You open in well-fjustified terror as he 1400188 here, I'm ooml agaii sped: Pretty quick. sodhad > 'Why—why—Robby, you"—— He departed. Ten minutes later the Mr. Pollard permitted himself @ dlsconsolate trio piled into & boat and shore. As Towed eet off for they wild and ugly laugh. they beard a big voice yell: “Now keep ‘om up!" he snarled. “Those are the three! - They've left elvet trembled visibly—al- the yacht!” Nveg Koo atiy. “I don't think 0,” objected a calmer “Yl keep ‘em up, Robby,” he aad YP 1 ante coreg eae thickly, “but”—— And there the ter- If we and thea bot fond ror in his eyes grew suddenly and his 4 voice rose to a scream. “Grab that ee], Robby!” the captain shrieked. that wheel! We're going rt” ‘The Lavinia, to be sure, was wig- be muse emai? Pollard the st t, ana then we won’ man! ling and flapping and heeling in the fanoowat bee, aise Gtrangest way. which point the win Robert Pollard grabbed the wheel. pf we seen Mr. Pollard drew a The Snake and William Ryan, ct re not going to land up qmeanwhile, had seen the wonderful this wa: he said ehortly as he thing that was going on and released wee rowboat in the opposite each other, Pistols drawn, they came «1 suppose he's only b! o when dashing at the unlucky cartel iets be rings his ath tke that a and cays \bbed the he'll settle w' jem in own : end SMe Beles ae fashion,” came faintly but very clear- ly in the hard, young voice. ‘As to just what bappened in the “«r"gon't know about that, Wibert,” absorbing ten seconds that followed they caught even more faintly, but all too distinctly. ‘He carries two fot one of the trio retained « clear, Bee eee. Cae be iad Bt intelligent impression. tington about using them one time— Mr. Pollard, darting at the wheel {2 the Zambesi I think it was, years ago the most obliging fashion, fancied for an instant that the yacht hed turned upside down. ‘Another instant and he knew that a stray dirigible had caught him with SRE lapalow 1. ite trailing anchor—because - hort In down the Ytened somewhere near Mr. Pol- 1 used to own. M seas waistline and another caught Panting, he rowed on, Nearer they der the collar, His came to the shore and nearer etill. Bhim equarely under ‘The Snake suddenly laid a hand on 1) hands tore loose from the wheel, his par nag sve , pistol hurtied off to a watery grave | “walt & second, Robby, be gait. “what's over and Mr. Pollard himself went Up, 1% the ‘anne ache ccopeange up “That's Willy the Weasel,” ‘acre was a whole acre of white the Spanish Brute. ‘T Jus saw him 3 at one side of him and ® and—hey, look down thei ' Banu etretah of water beneath. Be od Bowers,” muttered Mr. There was a slender spar which 7 “And. pipe that tree behind him,” Digger as he soared toward it and tho Snake contributed. “There's about at which he clutched—and, failing %° twenty of the Tin Dipper gang hiding catch it, he seemed to up there and watching us, and t 1 bay is0, came arse voice ee “I don't want ‘em more’ is rise ‘and his descent, he noted BR ANS pera, tend the Snake had rolled up like @ Gc start caming, Was tumbling #100 the ‘nineteen hundred T had in m ‘th ‘deck. He saw the mighty fist o! 4 I'll croak the blankety- Capt. Velvet shoot out, too, and a bel- }jank-blank"— \ BaP adstod up from "William Ryan. "the dreadful words rolled on and outa uP aime second Mr. KYO on senseless vileness in themselves, © MA Bedificuad ott upon the geok much Yet remant with, meaning for the Sim, and Robert Pollerd wae shooting ‘Again Robert Pollard ceased row- downward, straight at him. r eter another twinkling instant he pores an feared that he was going to fall di- either,” The Evening World Daily Magazine, Saturday, Febraity 13, 1915 he Sulding mind pulled the boat around ghout and, Jeased, for he was heading downward se.5nq we get near enough”— again with unnecessary i mai And sound, very Sfter a last stare low, t you leave it to me. They coat me Sonal oarsman. ing to land {ust now. Mr. Men Who Fail—XIV. arms, By Robert Minor fn vars co i 1 , |THE RED MIS [ BY RANDALL PARRION | make whenever I meet you three— Robert Pollard felt his throat, money ain't everything, and it’s thick. f “Couldn't we—fix this pommatiow BY get that room for & little lees?” asked. ‘Bay about forty conte?” « “Not in ion years, bol” torted the t iy to the jar ashore mate!” he announced with a painful, frater- smile. at?” ‘In the small boat, mate,” contrib- wl eo Snake. it are you goin’ to do with the small boat afterward?” demand- ed the man at the wheel, who had a hard, unkind face, “Just whatever you tell us to do with it, mate,” the Spanish Brute sald humbly. ‘The mas at the wheel stared them. Mr. Pollard could see that had no imagination at all; for hav- tag prared, he studied the shore-line until: eon’ tug over there?” when I guess that'll be all tirely and returned to the navigation ni ul of the Lavinia. pe ea The guiding mind hésitated a mo- lently in ‘Jo it Co enn ee ee errs rl “CATCH ME KILLIN’ MYSELF ON ANY $10 A WEEK JOB!” Caalied about in tost Unsvonsant fasbion. A William Ryan, leaves: “Say, I can get ‘em from the unlovely wreckage, whick was for it; he wanted it for his gon- & little while Robby,” the Snake her, and all bu here! I can get ‘em nice. Lemme Within a very short time, Robert Pol- in-law. That's sixteen thousand, And went on, ‘while bis Meee ars ber while Mr. do it.” eee a ane Co fester matey ae all cae here leone seaports just ‘ce trig biygre the Lavinia’s deck. pale and - on the race—an must eay “ lone ‘Then the hoarse voice spoke again. duced between them and sald shortly: cashed in like gentlemen, too. That witha bie white ‘ua rouea across tl “Now, listen,” it said. “This is be Lid get hj twenty-two thousand more. So that’s must have snatched to the green tes. my job, We don't want to start no pre WHat?” asked the Gpanish jot as he came away, Stares shootin’ till we can finish it first ~ “So that when Andrews and bis Gr eee Ss crack, because we got a get-away to ere & ured oe bog! oe ing looked make. Anyway, this is my job, went x ae . Mr, Rollard did not reply. This was took to shakii Joe"—— they passi” The J ‘@ laugh was Doctiine he’ was no. loner there batend arg « "Well, why ain't it minet’ @ ehriller ‘The Snake turned away from the + e watoned: Catala tone demanded from the depths of Tall. Velvet for another fifteen seconds he clambered “ » would either throw himself headlon: the bushes. “Wasn't Ieleven months pe £0 needn't #0 to all that bother,” 7 "tng ‘money wad aie inglorioualy, oF stackin’ up that fourteen hundred at us now; he's co! ° eee te ae aa ca tis canton nateee they trimmed me for? Ain't I got = ,Jt vas quite true. ith beneath the waves. Realizing «this, right t' croak one of 'em?" Soe gone Gapeais pad Th: te Mr. Pollard had hurried blindly for- A still louder voice broke in. It bag was on the flooring ward. came from a tall, handsomely-dreased bis knees sat Blister, gazing upward The Snake and William Ryan were chastened humility. person, who stood revealed on the @ectionately. conducting no song festival of praise “Cap,” eaid in @ thick Curiously enough, too, he did not there Seated upon two colls of rope, “could you epare a couple of bites Barrow beach anf shaded his eyes to burst inco rage at the sight of their they stared ahead down the Sound that pie? et a better view of the rowboat. altered faces. and into the future, and there was no Captain Velvet looked at bim with- seit ump, of the wh three of He caught the ladder and si ¢ wen of @ smile on elther contorted out emotion of any sort. Lay re any o! a long, dark dook, ® lper on its other side, and piles of boxes and his fi, ie bev for one to stumble over in the dari i rt Pollard, havi: pon no, Jimmy,” he said an inch to Sar see tae Sate tated. bis shining grip aboard: be took the earthed a shaky camp-chatr, satrdown aualy, couldn't. ain't sot any res d were ‘bare Case: int out ingerly and with a groan or two ore’! myself,” place Why, great, ttering cae conten “Oy Meat and him after. Then, fumbling in Bis Stared in the same booties direction. "Well, any guy that'd ture ews @ Out ‘of thie Nae 00 AE caused Whaee this ean’ eae small bal pansned dawn’ Inte '® lew $0 We Renta end wap to di aways” wind . Bows sate ere wild. ; pas ‘abo stroked bi go The ancient double Ki t » bis ey ie mal- “They're fighting over the job of Lc ae there’ ine t The Lavin! apparently: needed It- Sapien Velvet munched on. treated jaw. peo, ‘went out of this wall did not invite one; rine oat heed many nd gordi aera dae Marilee he, aes e ok, UE iok ames Ae Gehan aes ER ene wh tm fr. Pollard tried in vain to smile; 4 ° Jimmy," be said. “You in car, ‘ere done tha Wille lips wand nov eapend ee Waterman and i'd like to vee you do: Sehind her, ahe whirled slong straight Gurmed unreliable, 1 hed Ro. Won Lyptiaael . ¥ “That'’s—probably how they fee [né Detter’n this. Any time you get for the great city and all that lay whether you'd ts here when I got ere Ditterly end we're do’ about It,” he submitted. i therein. Pack or not. I could ust es well | Mr. Pollard laughed “You pull about ten’ more strokes game somof cifcer in the oavy were _ MF. Pollard, when he had consid-\ have Drought you « snadk, tool” Rilghed Up ie {rowers sstse art oe Baan, ‘ and you'll start a whole battle of building down below.” ered the prospect for a little, declined He tossed a bone to tate Or he clatiod, ‘Sh tet wit have to os get Gettysburg in those bushes!” the “nn, Cran Os trailing, wae % consider {t further and took to eplendid bone, with at least ten penny- Doma NG SNE Ole iene frat, Spanish Brute contributed. drifting along in a trance, both "nands Staring at the deck, The sun was weights of mess olagng te I J on we plan.” 7 I hi fritting slong tn a trance, both bands moving slowly down the western sky " ‘The Gnake raised his hands to the Ther Te can Leos, yy eyes. now, and inside Mr. Pollard strange high heavens, but his volce would not el, Wh) Meh co anate tro of ‘eat “Say, cap'n,” be called hoarsely, coming into being. come, Then, broken, he turned and ,_ are f side and fooked sadly PE ny food “Bo we'll have to go back above “this—— I guess you didn’t mean to fined them for him. ghuffied back to his friends. br Diy oe he ioohea be there and land, hey?” imine this.” This is @ thousand dol- exclaimed a one who "in the keen, appetite-rousing alr the Acros the (tres, Aa, Finks ell mob lynch us jars!"’ surprising discovery. Lavinia sailed on. ‘There was a distressed five- aid Sr RAEY comaiae At Proms Mew ORe. caeonnta tle PEST Gan Afton RI a aareati® 10 AS Snye Taltee eras eoctne bane 1 on £0F nie of old red brick over there, wi Pith warrants by this time, anyway” fe ih acies OAck heartily. “By- "the leader glanced up with a bitter York. “Ashore, houses were growing & filthy saloon on the ground floor and little niche at the alde whose door Mr. Pollard's voice was harsh. ‘No; ii - amile, thick, and factories, and there was all i ‘we'll have to row straight across to ae doar be ningmmbbori “Go back and ask him when tunch- gmoke in the late i the Long Island shore.” “Get up that anchor and b’ist those @0n is served,” he suggested. ahead, ires came Fy turned - ‘There was a strangled sound in the sails We're leaving.” = “Thi might be something down- blocks of houses in the digtanee— : ‘siowaring from = Snake's laugh. “For Europe?” Spanteh Brute Spanish Br was islands and big buildings on other | we HAPPY HARBOR HOTEL Ta oun” “With Spike Andrews and bis gang cried, as a ray of insane hope shot hopeful. “There's an oll stove down side. t on waiting there for us?” into his brain. It shot out again as there and @ couple of copper pots. Capt Velvet, wa' the ohere, ; Office. to the vit “I'd forgotten it!” the leader con- quickly. : Maybe somebody, some time, left was hailed by an wu ted motor ; Tireat rhe teake mm fessed, becoming desperate. “All “For New York, of course,” the crackers or something down there.” jisunch, which plo! to their aide. ; right, then, we'll go back to the captain answered. “I'm taking # Mr. Pollard shrugged bis shoulders. ater o little a it sent two men yacht!" steamer to-night and we'll just about ‘Go look, If he'll let you,” he sighed. ahoard and then p! aft. “Why not land her now and Fixed it make it. This is better than a stuffy Tho excellent Captain, it eeemed, did “Cops, maybe?” the Spanish Brute Ay “We can these for 40 cents, 1 guess,” he wishes. gs he led the way two oe foe Set over with quick train, ain't it’ nat even know of William Ryan's thout interest. over. Evans dismally. “A “T—puppose it Ja. Mr. Pollard was passing. He had the wheel jashed Into onnen witiee Shy take us Hell In the niche there was a long and pincheat™ ty) millionaire kid in the launch there, vague. place now and was quite absorbed {0 Gate, 1 fancy,” said Mr. Pollard Het- battered counter, with « narrow, thin, my the old man’s going to hand us ours ‘The captain's simple good humor teaching Blister to sit up, beg, and jessly, black y Behind the Sead anyway. If we land here we'll never was apparently quite restored. He Whine at the same time. ‘He seemed to have guessed right, counter, near the window, lounged a Oom- ye) know what bit us with that regiment Kicked a little folding chair close to Robert Pollard sighed once more, too, for one of the strangers took the youngish man of exceeding toughness, a of sharpshooters waiting.” the wheel and settled down with a nor did he raise his head until the wheel, and the other, with Capt. Vel- while farther back @ very corpulent °") . FE , Susty: “y fer to know what pleasant grunt; and the pockets of his Spanish Hrute approached again after vet, busied himself with the sails. older man sat tilted back, smo! ‘“ oR, z. ; love o ‘Mike, leok ) trousers, like the pockets of his coat, many minutes, Their doings were of mo moment at fat cigar which seemed to please him [ow8 ‘ay! There's Willy the were bulging with a bulge that had an Ryan ae boa all to the stricken trio, altogether bas in the reek of stale beer and Ye Pie foo 5 sad Spike, fi the mighty ridge ‘ oncern al by met em ith ir own e~ je pipe-s! e. come a dle: a an hob hve Resta jaan ree enty bly repressed. He foltered to Mr, spscrbed now w Te eee thie fai man who glanced up Straight up from the water after any one else, He chuckled, too, give him me enjoyment.’ {nfully they Pollard’s side and, dragging his coll “rey * slated either to remain and then rose and stared as they en- A2d, they've got this place site alt aaevaeha aaa "Slouch cna nave meet, 0 Meat eats aut Seal ag bc tae ant nes lence, and, Shout and, having \*Pihe multitude “Fifteen cents!” said Mr, Pollard ont attire they would abpens aie heir usual te cl t the rustlin bitterly. out of place in ti ” bushes and the heads amo the bap ly siege ote ate reepect- . “Past! Come over here!” croaked £0" however becoming the costume 2 aated i" ts branches, propelled it at a #) that uj distance, met an eye t.ui waaal- the Spanish Brute. “For the love o' Yt iivaiy to ~~, ay Pil Can room would have done credit to @ profes- most merry. al son's let him hear us.” “Coming out here I was wonderin, Swinging about on her anchor chain wert don't shoot you varmints and dese fettay” oat Rho tr found a quarter down there!” “ens of crim: thed William Ryan. Pollard best. "t go out we stare the empty yacht at least offered no yick what's left overboard,” sald icy cia reas to death rane bererana’ thie ae i i ne. it " if here?” More, on @ capital of y a placo for a decent rer they “sumed” aboaga ‘ilentiy, toe, Care eres Ronee DoE’ guupen't “sticking 1p between two boards in gilded dens of any sort 40 not reach you, anyhow?" place for. man to starve te hoisted le boat te the « wer " the floor, Robby!" the Brute exulted, ou je welco! 5 rr admitted . P aa Havieg wowed for the best “What is it? Robert Pollard “Robert Pollard was no more him- Now nervously, now apathetically, "Sea. dimoulty, Mr. Pollard with 4. part of an unpleasant haif hour, they *%ked. Els volce was fat. self. The glance he sent over his they glanced at the ehore-I “| guess you three tenth-rate Shoulder in Capt. Vel back at the starting point. ts shoulder in Capt. Velvet's Weird they were hy ho means pretty crooks must be my masoot,” #ald the was actually one of fright. Poll tal just what was coming, now t: heer. gotter get out of here to-; having been captain in dead earnest. ‘I dunno ~ ‘well—keep it dark, Bill, and deg't ing to avoid forecasting at all. hurled aloft, had Oa AYN eee any other way to acoount for st—~but jose it!” he muttered. “Don't mM Airection York drifted by—now eeeking to 2 ‘And if It comes down to that ose lodging and we ain't Ld we as oat . i "That's the Brooklyn ain't person joyously. other cent. We can't in landing. He walked every durned time I meet you Iseem any more ut it either.” it?” inquired Capt. Velvet be- ‘How much is . 5 ty on the unfortunate Spanish _——_—— Gesen folate, dorablo iitip in the left to start making money. The Pott wedded his com- hind. “All right. I'm getting off Pollard demanded with hauteur. | pe vin't got time!" cried the Brute, lying there so limp and still CHAPTER XV. t back with one hand op the plete” understanding and demon- here. “Fi rty-ve cents,” Bie. guiding mind tured with ‘eyes closed and mouth open— d took to fishing out cur- gtrated his care-free mental state by And he was at their aide and look- youth. wintuhel tie eee frou thes nd his fears were fully justilied, Pars And Then— every time his arm came down too his pockete—big bills and Whistling animatedly. ing them over penaively, while Blister As Jelly caught in an carthquake, Wretched view below 4 of M oliard hit the Spanish Brute suddenly, ut more yellow bills, He ‘Thus they wailed on for another wagged his tail and sniffed the ehiny the large man came close and looked hands fumbling before him’ bed HY art of him hit the deck. HE wind, having done Its full Mr, Ryan, too, walked with his bunched them awkwardly and mut- space, until the altered Bnake opened grip. them over again. hesitating fashion, i ¥ ing, half stunned, he and duty for one morning, was darkening, bewhiskered jaw held ata tered on: the Working corner of his mouth and — “I'm leaving now,” he stated. “These “Say, what was this — now — Mi aoe the. béa kad! , irute were altting sid ft very odd angle and felt along it at — “Now lemme see There was the came near them, fellers are going to dock th 7 trouble he panted. “A naval bat- re, Tasted’ his tt ‘side upon the Lavinia’s deck, walle dying down, and from pegiutar intervals, The Snake, who five hundred and something I won — “He's eating!” he sald significantly. for me over in Brooklyn. You'd bet- tle?’ = ia head: at trim little boat soared alot straight 0 the sup had’been slapped by a terrible palm, first. Then I sold that ottermobile to “Look at him!" ter get off her quick, because I sold It was @ naval battle, all right, a and Capt. Through was uaing only one eye by thie time Bittington for five hundred more'n I don't want to look at him!" her to Bittington, and he's muttered the Snake. * , peevish and talking mainly through the cor- ne for it. Call that @ thousand. the guiding mind, hoarse down as crew train to r “Haw! haw! haw! Haw! Hol hol’ hye of bis mouth. I sold’ that Bymere Haven place ,with emotion. Ly abou ane ea he tired of giowering at tf bim for Stieen,thousaad mere'n I) “He fast Qamied it cut of his bag