The evening world. Newspaper, August 18, 1916, Page 11

' i) { in gold by little to ite se thrill the reader, rs was the (Covered, 018 ty erm & Hein) BTNONGIA OF PRk OLN OM AerERA eae Pilon eo dime i Bee Free tiem, Bees Cay Vows Hen be cmtoues, tod Ger te el 8 eee tek 7 the captain's devin, Arie, arly commen te grin with Fick wine fem! Gis teteras ta Avie, Shum Fick plsne to warn Cape Rmchew Ue ww eoure ship. dives for Ue (emueure, bit finde ween aying the jou ee ee PH, Ut tlnw of Fins Intention U0 douine oman the OUR. Pick einai & liietoat wnat with Hage the end four of the Mestens custanns iiat ay 199 efflows come sioant Vie steamer wilh an Wo ey om palm of auromt Cal, Beart ba re romaitad by led arrestin & eehownme wil divee © OE witht revuite, Hone devin wo a taining t@ romove, the eitting see (wo work, The nonaie of ihe eee Ren fo the saul, CHAPTER X,. (Cantinved,) T must be remembered that this whole proposition was an experiment eo far as 1 was concerned, I did not know then how quickly @ @tream of water can affect «reat Quantities of sand under the sea, lot that sand get in motion, Tone can be moved while one takes breath, This shift wae ao sudden that I Wap not prepared for it My legs Were pinioned, and my arma seen to be clutohed at the elbows, d Was packing ti around me from hind, L Way wo scared that my hands loosened on the nosale, A roll- er snatched (he hose from my grasp. The nosélo Was suspended, and be- . to siadlo aWay over my bead. It feo. the aund moving there, and the murky water ail swirled about my helmet, and the pack Was not allow~ ed to settio on my head, But as to ‘ot my body, it was aa it L on iminersed in molten metal had cooled around me In a conds 1 Was immovable, Twas completely in sand, except ate and ds. in cluteh~ ing for the hose it had been yanked away, | had raised my hands Above my head, and they were now waving in thé swirl of the whirlpool, roped and stretched and strove, at last 1 felt the Ups of my fa- the nozale, | manuged after to tit It down @ bit ao that am played along my anna to the elbows, Hut Lb was unable to get my full clutoh on the nogale, @yive and strain aa 1 would, The temporary release of my. forearins did hot hy me, | couldn't get bold of that hose so as to turn the nor- ale full upon myself, The sand kept packing more closely about my legs nd body, After a time my aching hands and arma were oblixed to give up the fight, I had become so weakened by my struggles and strainings that 1 1 was as feeble as a baby, m was Keeping the sand tn motion still about my helmet and over my head, but my hands {nfo mo that the pack was gradually settlings that the sand Was piling up around my neck slowly but surely, In the bod of that water the partigles were drift. ing over mo, en something happened, “It was something which should have amazed me, but T reckon that 1 rain wae too numbed to feel amazement The nowele above my head gave a sudden yank and then righted ttself, That t# to say, it was pointed down war and began to pour water directly at and over mo, 1 felt the atrqaun rathor than saw tt, I could not seo in that smother of sand, But my aris came out of the mold tn which they had been pinned, I grabbed for that oso with all the deaporation that was in ma, TE held to tt with all my strongth, It was lucky that T seized It aa L did, for T felt the rollers tug. ging at It once more, as though some devil of the ven had given me one more chance tn order to tantalize mo and was pow resolved to finish mo finally, I did not know what had happened fe buried for my W L ani above to cause the sudden deflection of tho stroam, It was enough for mo to know that ne froak of tho waters had i howe 1 found out later what had oo. curred, and I may as well explain at this” point, lest you should think L have told me © story-book Providen T have related ty nly of @ cane of w I anchored my Mnos fifty foot from the wreck, ‘That anchor, vo T found later, had been pulled out of tho sand, and the surges: had bellied the wader hose ty toward whore, over my head, and the alm of the noaale had been changed tn the anap of a tinger, Lt surely Jad been touch and go wilh mo, nee the surge had taken up the slack and the + next Wave must have ferked the hose out of my hole, - had grabbed just in tine: Tn loss thie than T eould have Imagined possible L had melted my Band mold oud was free Common sonae advixed mo to autt the job forever, ‘The uncertaintion of tryiig to move sand With a stream of water had been impressed upon me ia Dorrivle fashion, Hut common sense is not allowed fo rule a man whea he is afer gold fn thin worki had found out what tha “i woul accomplinh Te it Wan used p yo Phad learned one Josson Which FE aould pet fore and 1 was sure | would bot niake the min fake of letting the sand cate ne from behind again, FE know, en the othor hand, what would happen to mo when | appeared above (ie murs face without iy ransom fee of yet low Kol | proferred te stay and fight wind lustead of mer Panothor expertinent with the wut wae Vastly encouraged, f en worrying and wondering To woult get back out of the hole, for | feared that the Ife tn would not allow the men on th lighter enough direct pull to help f : SAND-LOCKED | BY HOLS A treasure hunting story prize, buried under only a snd “and water; but diving for it brought kers startling adventures that will The Evening World Daily Magazine, Friday, {AN DAY ‘Three million dollars of the atream my thumb, and to pack tn below from (he nogtle with the sand bows he uprush of th elped me, and I w myselt pl to bore Aww down at least five yarde ore oT struck anything that wan Ant when my feet ‘om the grinding of Uh ‘what w Delow ‘hem, the whole of my being wave three eheerm-not eh with the mouth, but tilent cheers With which @ qan's woul yelle tus Joy I hed touched @ boa, There were Ite cornera-there was tte un ble shape, ‘ Afier wild @trugeien and e@ontor. tons, 1 wan able to wot (he pointe of tho ice tongs into tte aldes I gave the wignal on the drag and t Id tee! the on the Hine Hut the Pope over the edge of thi ot allow them to lift ver The box was too far away fre Henter for th efforta to amount to much, But they swayed away | kept the ho laying upon the box and under it It did seom damnably slow work. But me up, inch by inch, slowly and ly, until Lb was out of the he and alanding about ki munis . 1 had a tug of war of It thent Tho bom was pf out of the hole. The rollers tugged at my lin wrenched at me. Once or twice I wa: fairly Noored, I would fall with my lekm pinioned fast, and would lie ey hausted until 1 could get strength to Stand Up and Wash mysol€ free with the he In order to get back out of that hold at all 1 was obliged to slacken the stream and let the saad pack tn wader myself and the box—and when the stream slackened I was obliged to drag myaelf out of the packing sand. i Hat 1 was free at last, bless the good And T had a box of gold. It was not mere stray box, salvaged with the help of a freakish undertow, It was @ box which | had torn from tho heart of the hoard below, Yes, 1 was sure that | had been to the heart of the treasure, And where 1 had been the Pacific was already stufing back the sand, locking the door once more on the gold it had taken for tts own, L ks men come down! — Let them waste their strength. 1 had the key to the situation—and I alone. 1 tugged @ signal to shut off the water, And as promptly I gave them pull-up eign on my life line and on the drag cord of the tongs. I wanted to Ket above the aca and breathe tho fresh air of the good God, and look {nto the eye of the blessed sun, and give praises, And, oh, the awful weat {ness In every bone and muacle of me T lay down and let ‘em pull me back. 1 had no strength with which to mans that weight of metal which loaded lown, When they got me upon the deck of the lighter and had twisted off my helmet I lay for a long tine without words L motioned to Number-two Jones to remove the cover from the box IT had brought, The eight of those Ingots gave me the gead ono more—ah, It takes gold to make tho human soul gallop. It wan a wildly excited crew which crowded around me; they were till more excited When 1 sat up on deck at last, and told them Twas going down again, ‘The fever waa tn me, I wanted to go back to the Zizania with gold enough to convince Capt. Voart an@ those kKnavea of customs men that there was no fluke about our proposition, I wanted to rat that infornal Fick out of this gam for good and all, It was mighty tempestuous water In the vicinity of the wreck, and putting tho lighter nearer waa not to be thought of, Lut 1 diseussed with Mate Jones the possibility of dropping our yaw! back toward the wreck at the end of @ cablo, so that the mea could Hit the treastre boxes more d= rectly, We had brought extra mon that morning for the pump, and @& w for tho surfboat volunteered, Tho gold lust wae aolaing the whole of Us 1 went down again, fooling sure that tha wicked labor of sorting tho box up through the sand would bo lightened for ma, 1 took another anchor, and on my way to the wreck 1 refastened my {nos to bottom, rigging the second anchor as a bridle, so that the strain would be eased on the one which I had wet into the sand, Down | bored again, my tongs at my belt, my hose in my eluteh, And I atayed down until Thad sont threo more boxes up to the gurfboat, While 1 was tolling down thore 1 knew thas 1 Was sotting a dangerous record for myaolfL could not hope to equal tt on the days which wero to follow, At was plain that Thad panotrate to the heart of the treasure, but T had penetrated to other things aa 1 found all the scuich and brok= on Crockery of tio. Wrecked pantry and bar of the Golden Gate, You, T font thred more bores to the Hghte Dut when Lerawled over the rail lat my hands and fect were eut and Weeding, and (ho sand had been ground Into the wounds, Already my akin showed where tho grinding of OLLIE sand Was Weaning Che ey Is, Niven the rubber of my ault was wioWlng we 1 owas a sore r vhing object when 1 at od into Capt. Vash Peart's stateroom--into the presence of the Kir Eloved, and faced that ferce old dog of a father, He falrly slavered in his rage, and tried to leap at me, Treckon [did look like a beaten man, Hut the next natant my men oame staggering In with the boxes of gold Phere wore four of these glorious Doxes, ant each Go@ Was open and showed ho ingots ry friend Mek got hie two Doxos by the Nuke of an undertow," Ptold him, "have got mine by wolenes and a-syatem whieh will give tof it, Now, Capt, Peart, f your apotogios," And Leut him loose, Hoe gave me one look, gaaped one ' and P knew that Capt. Vash Peart had abdicated his throne, I wan bows Hut 1 had no time to Maten to his iirlum of protestations Just then, ok one of those bars of gold In my bloody hand. and started for my states room, I ahook the ingot ly Aa | could estimate, I went TAKE ALONG AT LEAST NINE OWES, YOULL NEED ar LEAST TWENTY HATS SUITS = OW, YES, You'LL NEEO —— g noses of those customs men. And they, too, knew that | was boss when IT got through with them, T had not cone back that day from hell and the bottom of the soa to mince words with any loafere-Capt, Peart in- cluded, “Here's gold worth $4,000 in good Yankee money, you low-down rene. You take it and get off this If you are good, and @round here like gentiemen about a month from now, perhaps Vil drop @nother rock into your hat. 1 don’t promixe—it all depends on how you wot, But if you come back too quick =Af you try to squeere ua for more rake-off—I'll go to headquarters and buy your blessel Government, and have you put into prison or ahot— for before thie thing le ended here I'll have $3,000,000 behind me. Now, you can either make @ dollar quietly or you oan make trouble, Bult your. wolves.” 1 cut their ropes and pushed them out of the room, and ordered our en. be ye net to sixnal their boat, did not have to offer them any apologies either, and I was not tn an &polowizing mood that day, They dtd the apolowizing while thoy were wait. ing for their boat, and [ soowled while they were begging mo to forgive the malgtake, they had mado, Yeas, folt pretty muoh Mke the Doss of tho outfit, id CHAPTER X11. DID_ not go down next day, and T watched the descent of Fick's diverse with indiffer- ence that was pretty nigh rene. Capt. Peart stamped around restlessly, for he oould not aoom to got It into his mind that the Pacifico Ocean wag on guard, But he did not venture to.make any sug tions to me, and I decided that I had tamed him In pretty fatr shape, I had good reason for delaying my noxt descent, It would not do to take chances with my India-rubber diving suit, Which was showing algna of be- ing frayed by the whirling sand, and [ put in @ busy day with the two Joneses, atitching @ canvas sult to wear over the rubber dress, I tin- proved on my toe tong by having & not of steel spring hooks made, #o that by moans of long handles I could push thom over a box without stooping and fumbling. Also, 1 had @ long rod of stool turned out for mo, and with this 1 could probe the sand tor boxes, L had no way of knowing whother Fick og his divers suspected that I had secured any treasure, I knew that after a night of action of the sea there would bo fow traces lott where t had disturbed the sand, Mut 1 also knew that Pick Would certatnly be wonders tng Why We had spent the atghte there wince We had installed the pump, and wave the tien orders to shoot any man Who tried to climb on board. We startod work on @ bigger and moro elaborate pump, having tosted out tho pringiple, of the thing by moans of the first one, Eneeded more stream, While Shank was building this L went to work again, using the old equipment, 1 waited each day until the other divers had been down and had climbed back into the sunlight, emp. ty-handed, hen I slid overboard from our ightor as secretly as pon- sible, and did my day's work, I averaged three boxes a trip by work. \ = NENT AT THE SPRINGS SIR. A moder wr and will | | aboup the hon fot gome p Peart succomsful pirate. a thing | soo to fit tn with t been nursed In a dr Harbary with my amo wreatled with my soul. Love might hi to at iaat she fold ee that of one who had becom stead of lover; woemed chum, to me, | again lin my story, would come from ing myself to the limit of my endur- would have ripped his dress from ance. It waa reported to me that crotch to neckband with my knifo if Fick climbed into the rigatng of the he had not escaped from mo just a he schooner whenever the surfboat was did I { back and recovered my eased back toward the wreck, and that he remained there on watoh, How much ho saw we did not know, but the mon in the boat crowded to- gether whenever A box was raised, From what L learned afterward, I found that Pek thought we were operating some kind of a dredge, and that hia divers reported to him’ that we were not ma impression on the @and, Bo he lnly tn the rigging, apying on what he could see, and reckoning that wo were wasting our time the same as hts crew, Before tho end of the wode thi new pump waa finished, and I ha almost 600 guilons « minute at my command, howe, and after @ time got tho box, Then [ returned to the Iehter, for I was too unnerved to work any longer that day Aa 1 jay on deok that afternoon, @ shapeless, hideous thing of bruisod and macerated flesh, I wondered whether I would be able to work any more, When I was under the soa I was rly beside myself with the excite- ont of the hunt, I could grind my teeth together and groan and tg way throug the eand, for t gold at tho bottom of the hole I waa digging. And every time I went down. through that fifteen feet of smother 1 knew that death raced me to the stream from the nosslo—a box of treasure and back. Undor Inch atream—stirred euch @ those circumstances, a man |s doaper- mush of sand that I worked In pitoh ate enough to forget bis bloody outs amd raw skin, Hut I felt ike @ pretty weak and Useless tool as I lay there on daok. Arle w. ith me, She had tn- darkness, I had to have bare feet and hands tn order to feel my w After a tine iny feet wore awollen to twice their natural size, Finger natla and toe nails had been worn alsted on becoming my nurse, I off by the grinding of the sand, and longed for her companionabtp, but the akin had Geen caton off, The sand 1 wanted to hide myself from her even ponetrated my dress, and my knees and shoulders were chafed raw, My back under the dragwtog welghta Lo was forced to wear was about Like a ploon of pounded steak, T waa suffering the Minit of human @gony—but 1 was mad for success 1 was crazed by the gold lust, l waa bringing out # small fortune every day—one day I recovered alt boxee— one hundred and twenty thousand dollare! But IT wae ati!l just as hun~ for the gold that remained at the ttom. I aet my teeth, casped back My Kroana, and Kept at work, Ub several occasions 1 was pulled back to the lighter in @ dead faint and fought with Number-two Jonos because he would not send me down $n that day, Wo soon plain hinta that Mok Was gKotting suspicious and unoaay Ono night a crow from the schooner eyes. A man who loves and wants to inspire love in a woman cannot help thinking firet of his personal appearanc It te the instinot of the male in the presence of the female, I knew there waa love and admiration and loyalty in her eyes when they caressed me, but I eald no word of love to her, How oould I-sortously-such = @ sorry-looking object as I waa then? We were alone on the upper deck in the sunshine, Hor father waa in hie stateroom, busy at bis job of adding more shests of tron, more bands of ates! to the treasure chest ho had taken It upon himself to build, We could hear the bang of his hammer, Capt. rt worked days at that huge chest, slept on it Uighte with the key lashed into the palm of his right hand, and betweon- Whiles cuddled (hose Ingots raptur- made a desperate nt to board Quay 4 y. In his way, he had become the Ughter, On other nights they made Sther tries, aid’ shots were exe 2, ioaane over the matter as I waa changed before they w sf Arie and I were in the lee of the One day, when | was at tom of the hole L had bored, and had 400% house, to get out of the aweep Just succeded in fastening iy hooks Of the trades, and we did not see the to a box, 1 got a shock that made boat when lt came off I" me believe the end of the world had Schooner, Had 1 seen it come, Something hit mo on the top Fick would never have be of the helmet with a. thud. that to board us, iut all at once he ap knocked mo senagless for a moment, peared before (ho girl and myaeit, T reaghed out quickly with © T felt a flerce iupulae to get up andl reserving the other for } beat his face of bln, even thous! felt the breastplate of a diver. [re my hands were a# sore ex feed what had happened tien. One og posed nerve of an aching ilo Bick’a mon, sent to spy, had stumblod ot that Mash from my eyes, and through the cloud of sand swirling looked meek for a moment, but then from my pit, and hid th he waw the condition T wae in, and mMe-not dreaming that 1h became Insolent, able to dig a fiftern-foot hots. In tho tangle that followed tt Was to ma," he said. "I'm on, T know A wonder that etther of us escaped. our system, And it's @ system that Ny the way the man strugled T peema to be raising the devil with knew that he waa terrified out of Ma you. You must bo raking in a pot or onsen. Ho clung to me dosperately, po once In a while, OF you wouldn't ay a drowning man might cling to ® be aticking to such @ job, But I rescuer, Then he gave Dis emer- should aay you're all in, Sidney, You keney pull, and yanked me with Mim peed help, rugh there for when he wont up. all of us, I've got two good divers, 1 had & raw temper which went with my Faw surface in those terrible days. 1 loft hone and box, and went up with the caller, dragging my knife from my helt, [kept clashi ie the knife against the front bull's-eye of his heliner, and after we had Leon dragged together m for some distance from the adge of the hole, and the sea became clearer, he percetved what I was doing. Ho lot Ko his clutch, and tt wa well he did, for 1 was in a atate of maniacal fury, I I'in over hore to propose that we call the row off, and I'll #end my mea down to work with your contrivance, and give you a reat.” ‘That proposition from Keedy Ftok, after waat he had done to us in the tter of that $20,000, and after what 6 had tried to do to us in the affair of the customs men! I felt the lan- Kuage begin to roll In me as the sand rolled under the force of iny stream from the nose a a en “It will be worth your time to listen - away? T can't say what T want to face death, August 16, 1916 By Jack Callahan THE PEACOCK OF JEWELS By FERGUS HUME mystery elory ded, seoreted the hiding place of a fortune in precious gems, and with this mystery was o orime of which the innocent were accused, in the end, both mysterics were solved, BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAYS EVENING WORLD And courage had left met had to 4 been doting bh work with all a man's gett and strength 1 had wrecked my body shed my soul in effort, Yo t of it was honest, but how and I got no consolation from Ct 1 was dare-devil enouw plenty In those days, but I was not sho wort of a daredevil who would make @ I reckon T had such yout me as an old-fashioned At did, not t plot which had ing saloon in the Frisco, New Eugiand conscience, have put the goad to courage once more, but love was urging me away from the task in the person my sweetheart, who pleaded with ve over the task, And loved m.. Bho told me with the simp! uggling at m in her boy's garb, her confession natural, so purely that of a t 1 did not wake up all at once to understand all that it meant 1 decided to go on with my work in spite of her pleadings--yes, in spite of her tears, 1 determined to go down ‘An !dea had come to mie as I had | struggled with that problem of our [right to take that gold. 6 idea. Of only one point depended It was @ in such shape that I could tell jneed to, The mere fact that I had de- Thinking upon It—hoping that good it—brought my courage back to me [ was again “arto,” I pleaded, “won't you run rendy to undergo my tortures and Aw arrivel off San Apusa Rar COMPLETE NOVEL A golden peacock, jewel sud. ipled that of a But, 1 knew ly, an they hh ot UD mother They resumed operations again shore by the aurqes. in @ clearer and fa by one, ied t wan botsted past them up to th me with a wvhirlgoot of mush, ‘They w tine I allowed the sea to clear, dove at at almost and I had no hankering to tackle pack. to use knives, back to the lighter. questions, to do. on the Zizania, near us, eye out as best I could. a bit. and tried to get it around the well set, and my men holsted treasure away from them, she found een room she headed = They & to meh her when the sand bewan to «wir —— wee an it er my f CHAPTER X11. pe al : DID not go down again for Sy ny calices ' Alinont a week fram hia k ne 6 Courage Is always @ man'e Wil lo wouddy Chat water A Ms t wasn ¥ to bold my i | ewe hes but courage 18 aoa work with a man anchored ts the fob | had undertal me Hut § was pot bothered for long. Was pretty Rear my whole capital The t at my belt ceased eude A diver could net find me tn that T got up my first box that day, the working my y out of the hole decreaved the flow from the bose, whea I rr bed the top of the saad the whirling particles were settling, 1 wore being washed further in cy down came those devils once more Uke clutch the bes, vy for them, It . boat, and once more I drove the nom aie Into the sand and forced them off ‘© bothersome the next Two and grabbed me, and lifted me up with them. I was furious, but I did not try to beat them off. I kept on about my own affairs beat I could, and allowed them to hang onto mo, There were a doren of them above, with ki vee, the I was not eure an to their m frankness * tives, any way. One rip of @ knife a into my dress would have put me out of business, But they did not I did @ short day's work, and went Capt. Peart had watched their dtv- ing operations, and was full of eager But after we had talked the matter over neither he nor I was able to decide Just what they intended That night we doubled the guards But no boat came My friends were ready for me next day, and resumed the same tactics: T carried a bigger knife, and kept my re fe Aneretore I was.obil But before 1 got the stream started: | to endl or reproaches, I did ed thoy wera coming at me three at & |reveal It to the captain, I did not time They kept lifting me off the bottom, and T wasted a lot of valu- able time and much of my little etock cided to go down again mado hi fed eS arm aseuis cande, Mia eP'suunact afer wot Soa ‘on te reasons, 1 will not bother to deal 4nd and began to bore. They ware |further with that idea at this point ready for mo again as soon as T got. Up with a box and the sen had cleared One of them brought @ rope, bor I was handling, but I had my ton, the ‘Then they began to interfere with say to this dirty dog while you are in he And r had Interested ux for a couple of days, ™* #o savagely that I quit In dis jr. hearing. And, wend your father Ti vay a husky sloop with a leg-of- gust, and signalled to bo pulled up, She did not lea mo. She came Mutton = mainsall—a — brond-bellied IT wan half crazy with rage, and Hick a look which or, and gy any other sort of themse| would have wilte man “Capt, Peart,” I yelled, “oome here the wreck, craft on which a dozen men showed # when ft sailed past ua to take up a position near the ribs of This aloop avemed to be of @ bulld to take the surges east] was putting me where I could nursing. frantic because this sort of business not realize on that idea which I was After listening to mo, Capt, Peart quick! Bring your hammer! Hurry! and yontured much closer inshore #et his ca jwlok ; c D well down over his ears, bat cn pn Ae pho ley or than wo had dared to anchor our jutting his chi: t his teeth, and corner on the gallop, Hin @ bulged out, and he bad bis r over his head, for I gees thought from the tone of my voice tht pirates had boarded us, His ox- preasion did not soften any when he lad eyes on Fick. mn left them alone, finger. 1 wa “You'd better hark to what I @ay, tion, friend Varh.” He went over the went @ame talk he had had with me, “Not by a, continental tin dam. site!” howled the captain: you have got the gail even to look the when way of the Zizania, much more come thre ent. the ne the captatn tore around jichter, ‘The men did not vidit us, and dinplayed no dosire to meddle with the secrets of the equipmeént on the h® walled-up acow. We wondered who they were, why thoy were there, and 1 went down ont crawfished my ic way over the sand windows, but In The gambler put up @ lean fore could make only slow work of it, for t tiffened by my days of inac- jut that new idea of mine jong with me for my encour- agom: 1 had hardly put myself in position, “And how ready tovenil for my atrehm of water, vot @ rousing surprise. Down came rushing a called for hin be was not looking pleased, “L couldn't get anything out He was rowed over to the side of the little sloop, . He came back very soon, and be ot that bunch except a few grunts and & of jabber," he reported, "I! English langua “This isn't our gold to give to comers,” 1 told him, ‘hey ke ‘believe they can’t understand They want araft, | suppose, They'd understand all right if was to carry over a al of gold and dump it over the rail. But I'm about tired of feeding gold to everybody who comes along here.” He bitnked at me and did not seem to understand. aboard of her, is what gives moa naked man, The depthe were tairly 4° wie 2nd callous over the collar Dutton, Got clear, for [had not begun to stir the BOe Go Inte SOAs G0, oF ee oft('m here rot! with my nogzle, iis eyes were question any further, for I was sei He let out a swift kick, and miased Wile open and staring, and 1 reckon ready for much argument at tha‘ time. “I'll not stand for any more Pick, If a erack at bi th that L peered at Dim through my + d the hammer, and mined again, Dull'a-@ye ‘with eyes fut as wide PONTOCHM if told Nite a megtn ‘The Fick person had had expert ¢Pe% When he arrived clone tom ¢ teed gold to those chaps and 1 4 ¢ ~ he dropped a rock from each hand, *0 feed gold to those chape and they lt once with the captain probably in bast mos, and understood that there jnging to Wor were occaslona when he Waa not to on bo managed, and escaped into his boat “ALL right," bellowed INck it your own way, you fovlal 0 mny belt. nd and ing his breath, “have Til do ¢ you were ever in the game,” He was Rrabbed than he had Intended to, #0 [ reck- tho surface, ‘hts, and grabbed me, eat right there 0 % He ran for the luddor mouth waa shut tightche wae hold. In @ short time another naked man jo down like tha stick of a aky- you #o good that you'll never know focket. He dropped his rocks and me, and the firat man. lot so mad that he Jat out @ little more £9 and went swimming upward to they'll want the whole mess.” Ms @ wire edge on my temper. itry wreckage, The woo think we are scared of them, and ‘To show them that I was not scared I went down the next day, and I had T balked starting a knife duel, however, an@ after a struggle got my hole started. I struck something new that day in’ the ruck at the bottom of the hole, den oned, "There are men in Frisco who | Then came @ third man, and re- boxes had beon smashed. Thad a allt will pay me mora for what Tcan tell Placed the second a sort of deop pocket in the dant ‘em than any rake-off you can give Along camo the fourth man, T no- vas overalls affair which protected ey ficed that each man wore @ harrow my India rubber sult, As my toed as ily: SRE a elt w uge knife fantened in it, located loose ingots, I shifted the ocktenctt bed ay to bis And that’s all the man did wear. Tho rsh of sand with the fingers of one moe nt of the knife made me ratier hand, captured the gold, and stuffed at mi ™ I suggested, ewaD- nervous. A man under water, atrain- {t ‘ oop ers own into the deep pocket, T came ping iooks with the captain, ing to hold his breath, his eyes bulg: were : 4 his breath, + up with a box, and my breeche: I suppone it menng that he's @o- ing with his efforts, ina savnge ‘Ook. bulging with gold. ay Bea Ing to blow this thing to the under Init object at beat. Th en came tho climax of my strain writers, plainly. Mexicans, and looked Til ‘ 4 0 “Then we are stealing this gold, particularly savage $6 Felasions ith (Hees eraaner Gives are wor I felt pretty. sure that they were not satel (thd sar dMely e| Poart fingered his red knob diving down there to chi and looked away from m fen have to take @ chance in this Mutyor, didney. Datin the law in a this! ‘The gold was theres these mon were, me in my iness or to ask me to fun for Then tt came to me all at once who As a submarine ever had his pockets picked at Dottom of the sea, ing for a handhold on my dress, everywhere almost, but I reckon that I'm the first and the only man who the Tho first devil who got to me as the sand settled, in grop. y wos trying to get dt, Wa worker Twas interested, of course, In fel ht to try for tt" #il sorts of jobs under the sea, and I ie loose Ingots, He ot one But he awit tha «Wad read varlous accounts of the Mex. did not get away with it, ‘Trouble or wann't there any legal way?” ican pearl divers, I knew that they No trouble, knives or no knives, {had told the about one each thing ga could) descend Jong distances and gout to the limit of my temper. 3 gave Hower bye attorney, Dut iteamoane coud remain under water, many of him a jab with the end of my sheath Goanec around’ and! eating bala’ ne m, for ninety seconds. Just what ing nozzle, and as near as L could a by shippers, or something of then expected to accomplish in judge L took a hunk of meat out of Cee eee nenat Linwin tone MY caso was hot clear to me then, It him as neatly as a woman could op and band (hat meant bw ak Our was plainly not their intention to erate on dough with a doughnut cut- plans and i & Jeb Of ana A assassinate ma at the send-off, They ter, The edges of that nozale had been on us f simply cleared om the made no move to use thetr knives, whetted on sand until they were as Custom Tihuse as @ trawler, and came One man aucceeded another, diving !n sharp as a razor blade, Tho fellow away, minding my own business,’ rotation, I remained there withont dropped that ingot and darted upe And now somebody else will DORMs moving, staring at thom until L be- ward, blood streaming behind. bim bly take the job of minding It!" T pan to recognize faces. They were Another diver was comin - complained, 1 did not have much fnaking me return visite, I. peallzod coming down philos hy or courke about me just the: then, My honds and feet and shoul- 8 were ach too miserably, and had all my suffering and daring boon thrown away? Let's co home, father,” pleaded Aris, It "Go home!” he yelped, past the Golden Gate with this gold? stirr Lug tt back where every coyote laws per in Frigeo can get his whack at It until they've trimmed ua f that the ‘arve met firs! dec «1 to go to work, occurred tle too much for them, Impul id not proposy man could done that on his first call ‘Therefore | got my nerve back, and I sienalled for water, to me that my now Bail in friends might find that the 4 with that hose would fog” 1 6a lit T resisted an to bat them away from: me every with the nozzle, That needed a con- ta take his plac ave kick when ho started. I reckoned | had thrown down gage of battle, an to stay there and meet the pack, down tn the hole. dious Job gathering that loose 1 saw the box on the Way to the 4 boat, gave the emergency signal, but when | jabbed him with the nozzle he whirled like a fish and went up, giving ine an awful tl T was not mind 1 was weak after my extra struggt It had been @ te- oll suet and ounce? Well, I guess—not!” siderable effort in welf-control, for my Was yanked back to the lighter at @ ‘An hour later Fick's schooner temper was pretty short in’ those lively clip. frothed out past us, standing to sea, dreadful duys (Te Be Continues) ¥ ' found ingots looge in the hodge-podge \ * o