The evening world. Newspaper, August 16, 1916, Page 13

SAND-LOCKED By Jack BY HOLMAN DAY A treasure-hunting story in gold bars was the Callahan OX CUM elt VvYou'RE Hike itTsS TAKE A Li’ SPN OUT to Ee pian, | Three million dollars buried under only a little sand and water; but diving for it brought starthog adventures thrill the reader i etit “thr | Hf r . : ff {the wreck. They 4 diver you @ Chapter V1. 7 WHAT Do you “AY T A Bite MISS RUTH ? won diver tha had wet our Ban Apure 1 gol @ View of Keedy rick when 1 not alow NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE OVE! THE PEACOCK OF JEWELS By FERGUS HUME 1 modern mystery story. A golden peacock, jewel s#tud- ded, seorcted the hiding place of a fortune in precious gems, and with this mystery was coupled that of a crime of which the innocent were accused, But, in the end, both mysteries were solved, BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAYS EVENING WORLD yw" be ' _* to grapple one of thoes ‘ ‘ kiss boxes aod lft It from the aod i ° + wee plenty of motion im the ’ ° opie of the eee Mut | realieed the yored wt t 5 of the day ve t owaying Worust me ahead {up y cover the bummocks with more fore than It pulled me backward. The w jue bive oo * Wn (he ae ter wae clear and green once more hon 6H, ad each works tour Whers, oh, wh ween) dvilare. Theale (he kind of gone! sidney A oiber, of (he wreatent ver Wore lead aioeel” © toe cheers whe survey | saw it had been covered by aon my back the drifting sand Portions eck which bad been in eight Hidden again, The hole est in my Conde wrouKgh vallantly waa Ailed tting on dock @ It te wonderful how qu 1 between hie currents of water ¢ Chad over those tn « 4 After in Puree d the 5 nded bie 0 dmy beadaround Mr Vick was any int > are of gold Like & lover fondling his LT judged that the treasure was IN'T YOU LOVE EA WAVES, WK like 4 hound Wa ive there! I've the captain had ment provided couse [have said it was there, Now, after I ¢ tossing heavily Thia lighter yards from the ribs of th | "Nobody has been a game @ this thing except you | Pick, sticking an ingot up under Ikee CYine ry body over before anyt do anything, 1 band with @ buried card in i, I've ayed that hand to the limit, and 8, how #e@ what has happened, When you fellows aro passing ohe | you'd bette viding Ingot. 1k HERE 00 You GET THAT SOME SPORT pick my own } 11 had been giving them THE MOVIES, has turned the trick for the man who bent REIT Hl he wot you fen ateee, cards were running right. 1 unde lle gave me a nasty side glane | snuggled the box under his though he had recovered p: hich be “Wr tend hose and lines, and Chief Eng neer Shank Too TRED FROM THE EXCITING DAY AND WOULD diving dress which had ¢ hundred dollars, and men “upstairs” I was not about my ability to get down and As to what mplish when I got down on the ocean's floor I was not quite we get another nice little box to-day? forty thousand while wi » the signal for Shank waa leaning c 1 went back at a the taut life line helped. them on the lighter stay down. chook buried more dee ike Was squatting in front Tt was useless to remain down and his hauneh haust myself L had made @ trial @! that covering before I did not have siwaye sald It Was even my crawbar, 1 signalled, and i} bright and shin. returned to the lighter © hooted at me bee As soon as my bull’seye cleared me up out of the bubbling do you think? water I saw Fick, He was perehe: on the rail near the lifeline oti id me,” said Woking down at me lke @ fishhawk « prey. For @ moment I was Nobody would back your hand &!a4 1 did not have another box. J came along. I've h enjoyed his disappointment. As soon as my helmet was off I told Peart that a change in current piled up the sand and that noth- ould be done that day. hi rate shag raged Fick, 9 fist into his palm. “You wouldn't une take my advice yesterday, You wouldn't follow your hand when the ly Uhan ever, Im there They all ha wito play a by ay fort stand about those things, I know how to play the game for what it's worth. There ain't any brains tn this whole outfit except what I've got under my hat. [see it's up to me to go down there and show you how to do this thing. “TN be out of this diving dress in a few minutes,” I told him. You're wel- h th come to use it." ere about it.’ T had @ wild hope that he was mad ose to Mo, UN= enough to go down —angry enough and wing the wing nuts between the gold hungry enough. It would ha’ stplate and my collar band. He gettled the case of Fick if he had gone and Ke Just ed to him, re there's the rest m, oh, Sidney? You have found st of the beauties, eh? Well, do ay well open the game with began to swear very soulfully in an down—soaked with rum and tobacco undertone, and he kept on swearing as he was. But he swore and walked ascends his bull's: They made ready the best lifeboat ered with mist on the Zizania fort and my equip> looking at my hands, Capt. Peart did not propose to take ny chances with that outfit during the ferrying coxewain, and I was not surprised, of there—and twenty thousand rin where 1 had stowed the find I navn “fr dane Galeve, be Get that | was half dead when | w n he got @ look from me that in- away and Jumped into the lifeboat all his sentiments In regard to xo much of @ coward that he wanted 5 put as great & distance between that three millions down and himself as he could. in only can deseribe the happenings of the declared the callous Next two sad weeks in two word: Nothing doing! Not that I didn't go down, I went pulled up-—or cared a rap about my every day. 1 tried all kinds of tools. course, to see Fick scramble in even before I had lowered my diving dre What did astonish me s what little I've been @ find out, reckon it is there,” I told wouldn't surprise me bulling the game when It's coming days under wa your way. What do you if we make the first day's ante forty over the side. I went off to my stateroom so as to have Miss Arie looking rather sullen. I knew what with any great force, I could only [was in no mood to encour- which I wanted set fr tion, onyway. “I'm strong for I sat up nights to think, and worked until they had to pull ne back to the lighter riding on my ek over the sand hummocks, so weak y, Sidney, thousand?" that I could not use my feet and drag to give him time to do tuat thinking. The old Pacilic welter next morning. were rolling pick at the sand and coax the box e end I had it y tigers under the edges there's one thing @ diver can lift with the strength of # slant, the alr in his dress assisting was ailing him. j in the evening to o house while I had refused earlier e into the wheel- Fick was there, I went down a second time that day. 1 chains and a When sho stepped o her usual The big seas up from the equator, and we could hear them booming in has be elf for five hours tn no cond chor’ stock, « fulerune for my the sand with the er may as well say what's on my mind, Peart sourly. whar and fanned something? tt 1 away fr I went down that day with urned away ptain Peart,” I sald, “a man who !y lead-weighted shoes, But the old n banging the soul out of hia. Pacific had given up our one mouth- diving suit ‘= ful of bait and now was mocking us Hon to thik. to a skunk Jf [loosened sand the ocean took that t there, Cant you say Sand and piled it higher over the treasure, And all the time Fick that L must confess that the Captain aia &lowered and growled and swore, and The tug of those rollers in- shore \'as tremendous for a buovant man, even in the comparative calm of I realized wha et up with this da was not disappotnted In my re I waa tumbl hummoek of the submarine send bers. T was knocked down, and then gaitered to the knees, and she went at as nimbly as a mid- king a hand from no one I could have ¢ Yes, it was a box, 60 I found when broad shovel. was a heavy box as to have something better to look He squinted at me from rise nobly to the man who has spent most of his life fighting for berths In the mage of shipping along the Frisco water-front needs considerable hot language in his business, and Captain Peart was in good prac reverse of the man who set out The sand kept run- fnto the lifeb: d low over his eyes, It was a small box, and there could be only one reason cing as heavy poison of Keody Flek's evil oye or ina sieve, night and dh clasped, finger t giving us full od, you are back safe, Mr aie he hele ln carried several email chain at solid that I waa not half trying. One morning Capt. Peart came banging on my stateroom door before T was awake. He tried to tell me something, fairly frothing at mouth, but the words tumbled ove: each other #o rapidly that I couldn't understand. He was jabbing @ all; occasion. A tugboat lee. “So I've got two partners against of paper at me, and I took ft an me now, have 1? snarled Fick. “I read: had to fight to get the two of you into “To Peart and Sidney: With two lying Hghter we were climbing white- faked hills of @izzily into green there in the 1to keep it dug out un- til I had come to the treasure. my head seemed 1ing# In case of need, Jed the box with chains, and se: + it to my body as best I could, then clutch Kreator #alety wasn't looking at me as ish sho were wondering in which pocket [had hidden an ingot of gold me back from the I didn't care what my feet, and then was rolled and pressed sand till tt seemed that on my feet again, for anything ness and results, the eyes for all thr straight bust- r two eyes are the proposittio making good I've got to fight both of She was glad to 11 felt the first weakness and now that. you're partners working against me I claim partnership is broken. After this you to keep the thing going, have [? I'll work on my own hook and I'll Thanks for the hint as to how you have a man who ts @ real diver, not propose to hold cards—but I serve a dub, and I warn you not to bother notice on you right now that you me in any way.” can't whipsaw me between you.” “Partnership broken!” yelled the That evening something happened Captain. “And how do you suppose bottom of the sea the rest of them said or thought. was not dangerous, It was disappointing, that's all.” I ignored Fick Peart and related what had It was a mighty in- yw that stood around me you have used ‘em down below there time [ was thrust ahead as if Pacifle were trying to make mo walk Spanish—-and then I was yanked | ward on all fours like a big yhole lot abc lized that T was having an experience with a particularly nastier Ming to it than off where wo Jing ground for the old more excite! blood in my duel with the old Pacitic, uliar paralysis of rs experience when endurance un- 1 lashed my tools to the had found h bane the lailt with the way this thing ts running ifeboat to the “I'm glad Mr, Fick isn’t satisfied,” “| wish he wou tows, and I re flerward that | gave the emergency happened below. ° When I was dragged over the rail indicated further cleavage of he has broken tt? He sneaked away assoctations on board the Zizanta, in the night. He took Ike and four whore checkerboard crew had set @ of my crow and the best lifeboat, But example early in the cruise, that ain't the worst. He took the dissatisfied that he would quit this expedition, And I don't intend to kow- tow to him and make him satisfied,” damnationed!" ploded the Captain, pushing back his n walting for a signal ao long that were in a state feared that I had been drowned, for been down my double tug, so they told two Jones gave & Id lighter I stumbled to my 1sat and wiped b when the he Instructions and listened I struggled on toward that wreck. I met an old friend of mine. the mushroom anchor, and it was doing a sort of fig on top of a sand ridge when T first saw It. T wound up, “this 18 -and-pick-it-up’ prop= T had given da motion they T felt a warm finger trying Ingot Ike came to the s what Teall joing damn Iittie yur hours since y ‘aptain and goid—all of it! Took the twenty thou- If In the wheelhouse, sand. He had the key to the safe.” ow that we're beginning to haul “why did you let him bave the in the Dright and shining stuff that yey to the safe?” makes the world go round, I'd like to 4, know Just where I'm going to get off _ “Because be howled around that be wrist-bands, and [turned to find her ou needn't be, C I say doesn't have t. Peart. What it had been lonesome during the night on the lighter and it had come to meet me, at least one hundred feet on the sea side of the wre with fluke buried If that undertow anchor It might be doing other things vine to me Hike a flash There's no telling what undertow will down here to tell us how hard that job ts my dripping shoulder, s embarrassed when the girl hurried to away the blood with her handkerehter, away her hands, to have her do such a task, She kept on a run home in en lirst yank took mo off iny feet. by the box of Kold, when the divvy comes,” sald he. And was more than a little insolent In the way he said it. It was a good guess that he had absorbed more or less of the insolence of his new run- ning mato, Keedy Fick Captain Peart was pretty short with yours will stay as they ay 1 1 had left to get that gold could leak in, and then she gan to wipe But that Kam had dug up that It didn't seem right has grafted tof the frat hummock of sand ck Was snap ind now when we have to de- u all we get fa some more Have you sot us away here and let us in on a dead That thought vith my helm ne side, and my sone of m and God kno: dangerous work, auch as comes right from I never had such a she had always int toward m y Was in a faro bank until I reached the next ridge, id of a sand bank,” TI told. iim, the man to get you have had plenty of prac- Hut this happens knew What the profits would be he would be handed @ lay which would make him comfortable for | whar from the tumbled on over Thad gone dows anchor stock, water and explain to bir ns his mouth | f that day with t Yes, the old 1 a change of heart since he unseen fin ish undertow und every one el recollection of the when wo started out on th thinking more about my pra of that freak abead of me. The blush was gone from her face doesn’t hand himaeif different w w Tnit & goo vcatn in my ear, uM poor hoy!" KB out sand inste: and I could s¢ which formerly had been hidden fre d of piling it of the steamer how to keep it or how to spend tt thing a good “That ain't any of your business! Afier giving begun to figur looking over, e rail of the Hghte at when I cam: Dreastplate and gave it its one-eighth ought to have some office as @ part- ner, and wanted to be treasurer. He has trimmed us for twenty thousand, and he'll use that money to fit out another expedition. He has done us good and proper, and there ain't any- thing Fro ed b J can do Loge We I reflected a few moments, man, He sntanaes, od Tee thas olded that, considering the kind of a the work was done and Wwe project we were working on, we could not afford to chase Fick and howl, In the opinion of certain persons inter- ested in that wreck, we might appear as thieves ourselves tf the thing be- came known in Frisco. I tried to say something to Capt. Peart about being well rid of Fick, 4 put Ido not think he heard me. He WY was too busy stamping about and swearing. ‘eo. That ween us gambia," the captain, “You haven't got ilar ahead now—you never did A lot of money wouldn't do good, anyway, You don't k the understanding |b laved Ike, with heat. "Woe have kun to get up that gold. We'll gat Chapter VIII. turn into the front eyepinc: window of a ship's porthole, bent down and peered nd expectations I don't size up the stuff on the ‘and see what stock to help me to unstrap iny shoes When I had counted the paces that ng tucked in my I heard somebody gay: “Ob, God, 4 man Is de : 1 told Mr, Jones owned to myself till then that I loved in at my face. lay, and how f it that after- fit. Its there, Just as T satd it I Want ten per cent, of all that lee were certainly weary es over the rall, and £ want tc and hopeless days which without any strings on it, Me and tagged on after that, I kept “It seems a terrible thing for you to be closed in there T had a dirty Was just getting my wits back ened my eyes. re holding me up, and Shank old junk o: in be struck har¢ lance of inte Two of tho wonderful how qui 1 away what the steamer to sort out soime material that fitted hen, if all that ts so, we may as gaid, her face close to mine. well up killlek and go he water drage free from the and t s already admired, humming @ tuno,” guid I, smiling at w long T worked a man's face, or he T went down ministration athfully to. me board thi don't watch out." I did not confide to th “With all my heart or to ery-baty be here waitin the turnscrew yo manon ea push of the nething which Iwas rvered my ene reached bottom under the h surrounded mo for a 1d mushroom about ten feet unde ttle pop in the als to a submarine diver Eustachian tu bar under th r face as pile sand toward the of strength In me to T had lashed it up those slopes, to the anchor thing to the stuck to the the rope to ask for a taut life let go my h the bed of ths found good lieht be! heavy sway to the tom, but 1 was » on trying to think My buovane rolling sea w of those clouds n Thad my talk with Up something had happened wome to pry that evening wh at one descent TAKE THE EVENING WORLD WITH YOU ON YOUR VACATION So that you will not miss any of the weekly novels and may continue to enjoy the daily magazine, comic and other Include them in your summer reading. Order the Evening World Mailed to Your Summer Address s anchor in the stock upright no need for me to pack the awled along, for @ push px special features. T found the }» of bars which wers para shoro—wayes of sand, so to speak, part of the Then 1 hunted \ and, though 1 It did not dis nave Awtween an anchor which I wheelbouse, pulling at his pipe aud by Ut bad been dead you would me Uiat this tol was just the thing (To Be Continued) ~*~ is the whole thing In this, going down, for I hoped to iptain Peart arose and grabbed meet up with another oblig- xt him out of the wheel- tng undertow, But San Apusa Bar Na did not seem to be @ popular resort for undartowa, In about ten days we got another hard jolt, A little achooner came swashing up on the lee of the Zizania, and a boat was rowed off to us, The two men who leaped over the rail x with issistance introduced themselves as Mexican old Pocitic, Tun customs officers for the district 1 the queer and novional qul arene etna cath off which we lay, and they wore hot repoat itself in this case the Uniform to prove thetr identity. ne Pacitie co: shew ta ine, It had been reported to them, they was not r leve taat | sald, that we were seeking treasure wr Sp from the wreck of the Golden Gate, t and 1 weat to and they told us we must stop such Jay a hound after & chase. business at once and sail away or we Mow that girl Mat BAVC) MO should lay ourselves Hable to arrest 1 had ty pleasant and tmprisonment, They bad a lot to tell us about what the law was, i the sea again but I've forgotten, Maybe they were ; peal, Roping: | vow I Wa) giving us straight law, and maybe. ed a pair of ice tongs. My expe. they were not, Nelther Peart nog I © of the day before had saown knew, doc nem two fellows, “w this ‘trip, mits for conided town In day, still hop ont