The evening world. Newspaper, March 2, 1915, Page 15

eh e . The o Evening World Daily Migering. We va es {Closing In (BH attra, (H By Robert Minor! OENorEs OF VRECEDINU CHAPTRRS. — Dwrnot, the grat gunmaber, Sg American upp,” {9 touring the la © Gime fo bie yacht “Irena,” partly for ple. SFO, ; a ‘We and party to advice in the matter of isiead @ttenes. With bin are bis deughior Frances fod Bis right band wen, Keberiagton Machney, © 97 Whe te teaching Frances to wie the gacht’s “nite lem." One morning Mockney forbids Prancen to =) Mae the suveratus, ile also warns ber agninet "7" Ldeat, Soemers, who is trying to send the recht © Wiselom messace, tcBlug ber that Semmes fe © ccoundre!, As a joke Pramess tlhe with fom. ; mers by wireless, tut Ln . Irvessa fa, Winckuey landp ‘% ‘reeces its af i when the secht 1s fired om. CHAPTER II. bo (Coot tnued,) The Fight for Gold. “6 ERE!" echoed the eld man, shuddering in his fear for her, as Adrian's men dis- charged a volley from the i boat into the trees before they landed. They bad picked up the swimming eentry. Frances saw, as ahe gct free from bor father, that the second bont had reached the sandspit tibet tyes nebo rack ber beside the first, and that the men tact ‘wae the single word vow ere discharging their rifles fever. sént poral a wae RS Pe fealy into the brush, as they swarmed _ Vrom across ph Bhs Bday Bd upon the sand and threw themselves Fune Foe: erotics tn tia nates fatten ta down. Then Adrian rallied them, and, Fran Gs ty as ehe struck her key firing ® lest volley, they charged It now No answer came, out of sight under the trees. tle han Iepaaierne to Geos ve aave The firing became louder, awakea- them!" she repeated to hervelf, halt | ing ponderous echoes. The Bagol al } alee : ay if? iH § 44 Es = il 32445988 3 i zt fe ‘men were gathering in a wider olrcie; sas ) too, maybe, miss,” but Pinckney and his guard ber! (Rab tar the mate, oe et ee ~ etill holding them off. “Fyrom on other side of the pot a foot from Frances'’s head and “<r? smothered. by the sareasing | t left ita black dot in the woodwork Wnise dicchereed tress pees, Eun, 2 a oe ‘belind Mr. Durant, between him and a minute. A second automatic gun, | iostant Nand dotted beside the other. n Nighels had raised bis rifle, and ‘wap returning the fire, Neve them, were saved. es But the brown men, whe nea come _ But Nichols was pointing to the ~ woods | ' ~*-& shot from the shore hummed by, by th int, the fainter rifle shots | 9 4, pi bis Gaughter. A eecond shot followed, i rting ite ceaseless rattle an beck to watch the beach after the So nad tyne ths coors eeeeredos @allors had passed, were lying hidden had pushed them it. In spite of wate. And volleys from the yacht's bo vn pe sgahieegetfead Mes Ji ey had ‘boon pling ‘nto tue boates | = + Me below, child!” Mr. Durant haa BUS 2°* med suddenly and) i it he @lesped his daughter again. “Be- A moment ofter the beach was ores _ lew" cleared, sae Irvessa’s thirty men, ee to ago by, Joytully: ‘ thin neve, Laney es bth eipeky bagt'4 beste py rib beng hangs Yaa ES Bsn ech he ‘ m7. Ny Bante ‘e Dy Etherington fe! 're—he' citing ‘was—to Marsh, at an; ion, Marsh; and whic! ve en & course, sir, Seoeran ae now “ 2h) Os Sathorenol” ‘hp replated Bit LKS: trom the bush behind ned Bieta rate, For he had come out with the good deal of trouble and risk, ag 1 Row you entered this Admiral More frantically, trembling as the made, unmolested, for the boats. CHAPTER III. ® moment ago, to save for you.” Rhelnstrum's name to protect me, “i "ne Governo! @sing inland crackled out again. Frances counted th ~ ‘What—by stealing my designs and 1 in all the pay for it, after bog to the othoors & Ke Ape and nat Usten—they'A all be killed! Oh, clearer into view: Rival Men and Rival Guns. siving then and all the crealt of @ it would hurt you @ Pinckn re very wed that Bere must be hundreds fring at carried or the SCRATCH high up on the ; them to your Dutch friend, Raein- imout waying: wast it would have fe i but by some tibacte ail were thee, nervous little designer sprang up to strum?” lose me—to lose the Government or- They threw themasives Into the boats shoulder, cleanly cut by @ the yacht’s decks as the doctors ex- “Listen, Marsh, and show some “@r for those guns, wouldn't 187) and rewed wearfly back to the yacht. sharp ateel bullet, 1s a amall amined the crew hastily and passed sense for a moment! PINCKNEY re Oh cp ewe, b BROW lose, Marsh. few fair tad! “i Bawiad taba the sputterier the aoe. thing for a proud father to them. “I must see Mr. Durant! He calmed the. other again, — "you Peurned .puncaney,, Guicuy, | pSuse Cea fat Ace to ghine . and the rescu! sleys pay as the price of the dis- font for me. I'm cheb he haven't heard, Mintle etree enenss Course; but Mr. Durant and the works, look as he were ich I am responsible, would rity ys, that x0 ‘might oy A Se weet! ¢ I wes talk- from “s rifles, atill rang covery that his child does of the crew who stopped him. prey mee eae Tyee he Pnadit iate not wince under fire. Mo, whien | "Bog pardon, air: but Mr. Du Tomy) ea Laonay Ga eal saa y heavily, Bub t thought you bee 0 1H otis sind, ito hear tha ithe ‘Oav- broke 4 jurt, and si jee! rders, . ie " fold Lim where we are, and he were Etherin Bone of you ai bs cassia went ieee ben} Lip tA protested the sailor “la that any one’s accepted. We're to make it, and I've RAN, Fe To, abead of! ‘ive Fiuelnattoen ( aes wireless?” Slop. tathen. wag to qvest bis gust ne th rod imosit urant was not only slighting his t, be taken to Mr. Pinckney , Seen the drawings—my drawings.’ canoe ey a y tl Tie'to bate ot gebing after her but ‘she had Secean overside. je latter came own hurt, but was Willing to look for’—— You don't know, then, what pay- by: gun proves supe! acon the golls spat oUt “No, sir! But ten of us are hit and WOR the whole Bagol adventure with | Whose ondera?” Bun an thiage ns Temtor for auch ® ® yell, Marsh" fate tP ieapiog ie ibiue spark. tty badly hurt. But you—yourve leniency. Gunee sot? eiecilated the tittle "I don't Know-—no. But whatever | ‘“Well, Mr. Pinckney, of course they * called Frances quickly. nm struck yourself, sir?” The For the more or less serious inju- man, “But I guess, too, I'll see Mr. !t 1a, I won't see it go to Rheinetrum haven't’ got even an equal to oure at “evens . ie in"—— younger man clutched the older ries to almost a third of the erew and Durant, or’=— or any other Dutchman for my gun!" Washington, or we'd never have got our order. But here, sir, here"—- vee "Wet ‘Say te the Adrien ee et BAe the ship at this time in the morning!” Now, you know, I suppose, “Well,'sir, right here in Manila now, emment instead. Miclo sen Neth Bago” lies tems % ai easy voice interrupted that all the time you were drawing and. before’ this special armanent “"nuent 1end pK past “rabidly, whan. tbe talomenn oe. ae ‘as he came from his cabin. the designs and working out the de- Comission which is aitting here, rea wal o wae prosiied. "We th being at- and Mr. Durant! See, hi n hit, account for 4 He took the other cordially by the talls of your gum you Were 8D @M- they have designs and drawings for if ‘asked tacked he's to dismiss hi Ith a friendl: ld- arm, and led him down the deck. “Mr, Ployee on salary and contract .° gun which—well, #ir, it makes me deve SODtOa!” whe t_ herself tovbis bow, 2 hoe ae Pointed recklessness and fool- Durant le being droosed: uo hort have with the Durant work i Se eras thane henarede wa ng mhe bad ight fell h to walt. But come to my cabin, wMCartainly, Mr. Pinckney, of dollars in the now, instead ie area. iy speed to Marsh.” wend taken Mw sake a rommne of coming to me a we make the on) ouoet” he repeated. ly more favorable frame of mind than “But how soon can I read exactly what was in Rheinstrum eee Mr. Du- locked t +» he could possibly have hoped for. But, rant, Mr. Pinckney?” the little de- ‘rect you signed, before it was a “What ts Peat i te, ‘Marsh? What gun S entronte him with faa Fuck! as he was a wise young ean aud rec: elgner still protested. “For—tore site UD with the other papers of the coms Yo you mean?” ognized that o cooler consideration he blurted out in his excitement, ‘the Peny ‘he Sommers Mr, Pi exhaustion, © Michala vanaf some features of this adventure ;helnstrum gun's beon accepted; thet PrWell—anty tn tn a general way, Mr, ene “designe. Mr, ores tages bim; he's ecarcely hurt at Ash prove les favorable, Pinckney Fi vinstrumn hes bees accepted by the & little. confidence for the Sommers gun.” 5 1» grossing occupation for his bost, in Government, and they've given or: “Then you do by particularly ree phe Sommers gun, Mares?’ “Coming!” wae the, instantaneous Gah he Saab, rancea—the crew!”’ spite of his condition. ders to go ahead on it at once, But— call, Marsh, that in that contract pinckney's voice had become hoarse SPP “Full speed! ‘Tho! ton—at least till we ‘ana a Unfortunately, he found that he Dut how soon can I see Mr. Durant, which you had to sign before you jn its intensity. whether the men: who ar Set could not adjust th with Frances Mr: LT al ‘The little man broke were hired and were put on the vey ; but—you've heard of it fate! ‘They're etill fighting for ue— qWite so easily, She sbut herself up off broathle ed that all patents bs] asked E Bey. Mateo" in her cabin, except when she was , “Oh, tis bas eopepted, has it? And 0 oy oe vet ccome “Why, the Admiral told me it was they're safe snought” + re- Watebing beside her father and the ‘Ney have, have they?” Pinckney's Pye d would become ust submitted for the first time. He te 7- of turned Pinekney, ‘Uneasily, Wounded men, aud she made Pinck- 0Ye# opened and closed triumphantly. 4 absolutely the PrOP- said it was the invention of « "4 Ob, father!” ehe ‘ring ed, ae lipinoe ace off lone Revs entrance wn excuse to leave, He clutched the little designer more mspany » —_frlond of bles Ileutenant. com: om ed hers promised himself that Frances tshtly. “Well, I told you that you I didn't know that! ing some gunboat down in “the lower honestly pum the shore a lin - fore But he pi o can't see Mr. Durant for half an “Weill, it’s true. But don’t get mad the wireless cabin, 10 would aber around” | again very hour, Mursh.” He shoved the other st Mr.’Durant, now, on account of WARM Nienelf Up upon her Bom father’s uncon- #000. Seta coon ied oven] along almost force, and then that. Every big corporation like his eee taae eh her violently to t selous new: 90 T'm in comma: able. Frances, too, must surely “tall waved him cordi lafly to°k eeat inside Feauires that clause in contracts with throat. “No, I hadn't bear 20 it, Bat owe devils on shore are getting Speed ahead to be cried in ine again.” So his immediate ob- nis private cabin as he shut the door. tpelr men. He just follows the me more m mers.’ again, ap the anchor came up and the ject was to keep the father interested «put firet I ‘advise you to find out eral practice. But I, Mar " ‘That's ali I Keow: 5 dust that he in- vented this gun and commands the— Dick Sommers. the San Juan. ‘That was the p94 y yeobt ewerved and started. “Now, by plunging him at once into the woes t you had better say to him, any- liked Pinat prestice, is name.” 6 HD Sen Juen, my dear.” 2°) “You are gure it was the San eai4 014 Admire) Barlow, é a ba Frances!” be called after vital business affairs which bad it just or tatr 4 y—eapect the qin to explain; but she turned Drought him to the Philippines, be ‘i O74 ou from him and Wweat below, without A Consequently, early on the second pew, phat do you mean, Mr. when bait te men sige even ka thelr say thal word. morning, and long before the lookout % i ing it. So when en you brought me your “was sighted end cig- Ywithin three-quarters ofan hour. , Pinckney smiled queerly, and fol- had sighted even Boca Grande—the nao rautny ysuers sage mere, w nM Gesigne and drawings for your gun, f _ 72 think so. Mie name te Sommers aalled from Cavite at 7 _. Butoh, She started up ‘owed her great mouth of Manila Bay—Finck- Quarantine in such a atate at this sew TigUt away, ‘hat you had a good trbank you, Mareh.”* Pinckney con this evening. I had the ip as the full sopremasion. of that , She had gone to tend her father and ney was in wireless communidation dime Jn the morning, Marsh, But gun—in fact, the best gun I ever saw. aicered ae 7a’ momest risckney 6 \° 5 fa delay tingle th ihe fetal savor fee wad tt’ ase talon at Castinnd Mamie” tv, Caught YOu Tn Mine tor provent ut Ah tok Chem fli Brough Shout gun he eoataned quay, (ore, tafore T eft ay quariern. sooimande, ou fring ‘on shore was Fatt! ing rapidly, Ing well and the men were as com- ‘Tho Government stations prom your veaking too complete an ass of My office, every idea and design you ““iwoil ‘gir, it's « ¥ FY good gus: left orders for her commander to re- Dick was sent in with a deat tunceasingly, now, 4d yourself had would become the property of men one night to see was mm ait be iulled befare'he ean come! "Oh,. fortable as they could be made, na that Mr. Durant’s official’ friends Yourself and losin Faken te teubie the company, and you would never Very Sood gun indesd.” port to me here, Bo, my dear Frances, men river. | Instead PAE Hei had only told him before! fe last—in the wire- would come to meet the wounded to try and A got a penny. So I took them privately ,.uut not better than ours?” ,, I ehall show him to you very soon!” x ng Cea aula ane ects a nd tation ‘was Feahe ohotis enetor soon as the “those money youre tried to save to this Rheinstrum, had him make a Py lia) Rheinstrum? I won't “pyt aren't you going to tell me crow.’ seeured Ht wath hie all you could, @n@ 68 Goon as a was Yeo . repeate: few changes and submit them under "“%,4°. ; ” “The: ht : * Jou coma!” and empty in Pinckney’s private messages com- veg But fant eerctle hay; hin naineeand, now that they're ac- y «why? Not because you're afraid bs Te in tee evening, and . “Not quite.” Her partner cutie “But you don't know, father! He swift manded, besides ambulances and doc- this gun business hus brought. you cepted, I've got you a fortune, where tse it's too hard te t 4 he guided her carefully, fold mé half an hour before to tell turhines were cleaving their way tors for the wounded sailors, that here jn this state?” you would have got yourself nothing.” nee 186 are ‘all, sir. the big military band at the army o.,, ding dai “ him where we are—he bagi me—he cleanly on thelr race to Manila. Marsh, Durant's chief designer, who “But how, Mr. Pinckney?” f, commanded me, But 1 wouldn't, be- | Now that he hud found her, Pinch. had been sent to Munila by a 'uner, ee all a “hop” oH made on 8 new hate and navy “hop” was just settling fow other things ‘ike it re hope ae “I've just seen out here, after word + “This way, Marsh. For every gun rT It hard down to work, The quick, enlivening the navy and made hi San" cause Etherington warned me not to, noy healtated before Frances. Nichols should come to meet the Irveasa at Ws sent of the acceptance of the de- which the Durant Company makes, peg eg As BL Oe uy - wed ee L Boeewnate that?” Ghe paused, had told him something of what she once. For Pinckney knew that Marsh {008 * Y ibd an Suplicate draw. Seder the Radlotirun mentees ae tT ou say Ite been shown to the of- rhythm etirred Frances’s blood, and ytd gpg roe % Annapolis. had done during the trouble ashore, Would have news of the affairs with I made to protect you, I draw a roy. “cere over here, who've had our plans her eyes grew brighter than formerly. ging and resound sad he Tried to say nome of the things wich, Me. Durant was most con- Five, ,oooMti,, Mpeinntrim, fun, MC ally. ig. neinetrun’e, ‘nmme."But fu'the Rheinetramts” Te °° 78% Mer father found her tapping her 1008 dn rosriti in, thundered from he bad prepare: jut as he fou: cern ‘ J logue! hich I t 5 ° ae mack of roar Which stretched Out there at the Koy, sending thee aay “Those affairs consisted chiefly of Kt Me In close touch with some of yalich 7 ,Pay, to you, the real ine wsroge of chem don't, air. You eee, Testively to the time of the muaic. bound the bay on the east. At ths for the Sen Juan back over the sea to the acceptance by the Government ‘he oMcers whio'd been sent copies of © How much?" the most of them are field officers and She was glancing expectantly about the shots ashore ccased eud- the men whom he had deserted. he board at Washington of the new the designs submitted to Washington ix hundred dollars, Marsh, for Ca" judge guns only from these the big ballroom after the admiral mye seh | ivering and trem. @2mmered as be started to speak, naval and coast defense un which tnd which you'd never, shown (@% every six-inch gun we make; and s aip i very deren: iy ated had left her, but before her father’s Suid, ne? need the girl , quivering an m- Ir. rant wi anufactu: F 5 rent; ‘re si q c H, you would not stay, I can find urant was to mai ro— hun ree dollars @ calibre inch for 6% In’ fact, they fave Fe Tefused to ¢ve# she colored, a trifle confusedly. ing in int ireless table, th ich Mr Du. “Well, Marsh?” beside. the wire abe out in this Yeast, if hewi¢ the Kheinetrum gun which Mr. Due vei) Mie” Dinckney! That gun is every. inch in every Finch gun you recommend sending to Wash- “Waiting for Etherington, my Gear? necessary for a naval “re ington, even.” Don't be angry with him i¢ he must “Well, what did Lieut. the receivers rattic. Insti they, are , . Tant was discussing so earn inches, So pwelve-ii BP, WitB the receivers out glancing up from rhe slenuitts when Frances first found the not Rheinstrum’s gun, or any Dutch prcees.0 on & twelve: ine key. Juan by wireless. Tan's sun, or anybody elses gun! " “you mean that, Mr. Pinckney?” | “Then what are you worryiDg be even iater than thie, You know, then Sr. Pinckney himself had procured for It’# my gun—and you know it! For yfarsh jumped from his chair, “You @bout it for?” “Dickle here et yuant” ned {a Mr. Durant the patents and exclu- those drawings which came here from mean that? It's mine? You'll pay , “Because Admiral Barlow — you and oe oe ‘he ta coming! Ten miles {’hisared times sive right to manufacture this gun Washington, copied from your Rhein- that to me? It's true?” know the influence he has--is a friend expert of makes et v2 Oh, but that sounded very tame that from an obscure man known a9 strum designs, and just accepted “Not so. loud, Marsh!” of this Lieut, Sommers. He doen't li aeee oe ry rey “the be: Alech: thundered bys ham Wien ase Sia dooee itt cohen te Pinckney again. “of course it em ete ae ‘nat he ts ane this oe e ; “ary tee rae eo heavy adopted this gun for their heavier ittle ol nd ~ 0 of eo is pushing with it before a real i acrons’ the necle of land to the the task, ao ee ae rartne nrrmanen’ iy they're the designs for a gun which GREYS" AS icf vou dont mate any Sy New who “But r ing pin Pia ig guns to acare them and rifle shots snapped why af pepe. there's no one le meant to Pinckney the greatest coup | drew and showed yes tg monthS make this morning. This money is °oming ove! who, can pperate! He must in his career. For the manufacture 460. And you said it No #00d, honestly yours; that’s way Te gone "What Save’ Noor illed!* she cried. of these guna alone would tax the and to stop fooling with tt I guess to this trouble, and teken no Iittle Marsh?” @ woods, Thep anoth: But ag night began to fall and the entire force of the Durant plante for that’s why I.came out here at - risk to get it for you—and you try to _ “Why, etr, he’s going to ask yor sotashed through the cabin panels, swift tittle Irvesea was passing swift- two years, and promised good profits, antine to see Mr. Durant this morn- get me {nto trouble for doing it!” sive him your expert ‘opinion upon th ihe Durant had risen to shield be ly beyond the reach of even wireless in spite of the extortionate royalty of Ing! “I'm sorry, Pinekne Practical points in the making * agueiier th his ‘own body, as he communication trom Bagot, there 060 ‘demanded by Rheinstrum on “Hush, Mareb! Lower!" Pinck- Marsh, parbly, trombling Bommers gun, He will decide ® whether in to pull her down to the came an answer. every @ix-inch gun manufactured, Ney checked the other's outburst. “I and “1 imma jf nowt knew you % ee it further by whet you say.” 4 if Os Fey the girl could not | “Irvessa—Miss Durant!” The now with an additional royalty of $1,000 can hear without your shouting! by sir. 1¢ ts ‘Ah—TI see!" Pinckney’s face col- gts ona eae et Fan the Key. familiar tarcof toveb, had recognised’ an inch for every calibre inch ver Keep quiet, you fool—or Mr. Durant Renaain anaimcaite miner 4 is my ored, and his fingers twitched nerv- ou hear, father?” cried hers. “Glad to report,” ti may hear!" patent—my gun. I'm oush v hat I've sorry. | said’ what he sacs On He knows, of course, sl § m cry taal ede ered ten ta was EE nie ee don poe eno coma tor, pe Perera perpare; sir, + can yee o Nite that you know the practical whut if ) ctreet to to: hat interest oS Set ThE ah wae ve eel Bact ESE outa arty ta rte, Fas, re a oF SiS Riatate ee oe uiarah = ee nae NaN RNa ae on -