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- ~ sake 8 Mang tape cn NEXT WEEK'S COMPLETE NOVEL THE PEACOCK OF JEWELS By FERGUS HUME A modern mystery story A golden peacock, jewel tud- ded, secreted the duding place of a fortune in precvous gems, and with this mystery was coupled that of a oriume of which the innocent were accused. But, tn the end, both myterves were wlved BEGINS IN NEXT MONDAY» EVENING WORLD vita, + SAND-LOCKED BY HOLMAN DAY A tn «hunting story, Three million de in gold | was the prize, buried under only a little send end water: but diving for it brought tw startling adventures that will vaviws o | THANK You! , | [BAKER WLLL 1, ra —_ | | BUTCHER i . the neighborhood he spokesman of « Englian th Jul when our conversa 11 had received 9 sur and Was made on me for Kk." L found that | was deal ing with men who had deeper mo tives. It took mo sume Ume to une derstand that tuey were pot. holding out tor a bik r ‘The wan at the rau wrinks st » and sicered when | iat was what they rowed to of the loop L found the crew ty t day alle Mon was prise. Ne a “hot re end hin expect @ gringo to but we are not with thieves, nt to be here, You may pick and » but it will not amount to that!" He snapped his finger above his head, “We shall do our business with those who will have the gould in the end, with those who can pay, and will pay, And we have a mun who will see that we are paid,” tO du business 4 You have no ri. My wits had been sharpened while 1 had toiled at San Apusa Bar. | was able to see further into the ways of than before 1 had met a man ike Keedy Fick. I had @ flash of suspicion that was you think a better trade with that renegade, Fick, do you?" I flung at him, a! ure 1 had guessed right; face betrayed him. we are honest men—not thieves,” he called back. “We do not deal with thieves. stop you from stealing. But you do man’ We came here to wore working with my cbin over my shoulder, 1 wan looking for trouble. was Sipecting disaster, 1 was scared to he marrow, 1 am not referring to any feelings @ had on account of the pearl divers ir bug eyes had never detected what I was about. I know that protected me more surely ‘rom any attack by them than jroo alls would have done, Sut I worked nights with the con- art feeling that the red and green 6yes of a sieamer were coming up over cy 1 was awake day- Umes 1 peered into the northern sky bour after hour, expecting and dread- iA to see the trail of smoke which Vould announce the coming of Keody Fick and those whom he had notified. Arie knew why [| stared at t! Rorthern horizon, and why deapera’ Sorry added to the other woes I was Suffering in that Tophet of toll, She ‘aad resigned herself to the situation when I had ‘ed in keeping on. Poor little girlie! She became, as Sefore, my wistful nurse, She talked me as she would have scothed a ¢adman whom she loved and yearned win back to sanity, Well, | was a inatic in those days—there’s not much doubt of it. It was madness made up of fear, love, desperation, ny of physical pain, lust for gold— forcing me to do work which no sane man could have accomplished ness ~ - “wee -* IT SURE 5 A GREAT THING D PAY ALL YOUR DEBTS AND FEEL INDEPENDENT ~ WHY, GET UP AND GO OuT AND LOOK We counted at least @ score of men aboard using the glass, And whe ed off our quarter we wert of the mon held rifias of their arma. » what I have been expecting,” “They have come treat a wagsed mournfully and seemed mabe fast to are going to you,” bawied a man with a voice lik horn, “Mind how ‘That was a recKless performance even for a tug in that sea, but they rigged @ row of fenders and put her alongside with much clanging of bell, A doten mean leaped on board the Zi- zania, Some were guards who carried rifles, There were three men who seomed of importance. | spled Keedy Fick on the upper deck of the tug, holding to the funnel stays. Ho did not venture to come on board us with the otfors. “Lat them do the talking,” I whis- pered to Capt, Peart as the three were elimbing the ladder, “Just stand on your dignity as master of this steaier.” And the Captain did eo in a way that highly satisfied mo. In his years along the Frisco water front he had had plenty of opportunity to observe maritime dignity. . “I bid you welcome, genta!” he in- —————eeeevecemeens | formed them ‘And Deo you think thie? by you? Do you think you are going to pa- tronize me and tell me that perhapa you'll pay me day's wage wim wood, after I have done what [ have? Ob. no! Let me tell you that I pulled two million dollars’ worth of gold out of that wreek!" I waa shouting at them, waving thon awful hands under thelr nose When I told them how much Eh walvaged they looked stunned by toni#hment. “But you bave given me your code, i went on. “It's going to be a grab game Hl right! Have it your own You'll never in ounce of at gold steamer from top to bottom. You're welcome to, It'@ where you'll never find it--do you understand? And, by the gods, it never will be found until you come to me like decent and honest men, will- ing to give another man a square deal after he has torn the soul out of him- wolf for the sake of your gold.” J bobbled out of the wheelhouse and went into my stateroom and bolted my door, I heard enough to know that after @ time they began to hunt the Zizania over, And I heard what Capt. Peart said to them after they finished “Now, gents, you have made sure that there's nothing on my Zizania that belongs to you. You're aboard here without any rights, [ just want to remark that I'll give you five min- Utes to get aboard your own boat and cast off, and stay off'm here your- selves. I've got some men who can fight—and I've got @ two-pounder in ae, ere Was wuld bo (he value ot Tee « ee ge . t ngs enguah ith @ trail tide ~ nttom (OF CUreriveR Bfier jood behind me.” | told him sour (het @reck of (he Golden 0) the work 4 ; it ean Rever be any worse than br Oo ‘e oe | hed ho appetite for more ed just Vou have ¢ t hee b We'll take re chaners WOEKLy creer hen, | bnew thet I had ree ” “ wee moor fe luchier nearer the wreck Hem of tay stewogth and you rid of we surf boat and crew. | [STIPEND had won almast tl oh « those ereasers guessing.” ko greed of that mimriy t . |eiven it t again in don n a { } of t you eet a ho | wn on the deck and endured y have to the petne of my tortured weady, a ® + to rock “ money end . he Waited for the inevitable when it Of It on the basis of iibera! wages. a2. ~ 14 ty I have already given you whould come down over the borison I'm Hot making any rash promises” yr sed 4 of Lie physical state L@wasin Ft from the north There we had it! Contemptuous “ fk) became numb to pain, aeour- Half a doen ansinus days dragged Gleregard of all our righta because 4 e tone to ' phot expla: paet—and then 1 come! they (hought they & the upper . otrarwise how f ever kept on, night A Wall of Check ox bands of wu - » Veet we atte hb 1 haven't the eo S me. “ t yaee\ae orp ove ut out fram under those grinning s myeterione eB sere—aritning their cneute at ied te hands @ fon c -" Pears long telone« nd hie fabbt ugytiinew—t ranged a te Steg te 1 to leap had never done an CHAPTER XI, sehiia of tainty darren -cta ty nies Angry roms vm nea aa tie waren ee! Nase day's Tabor with art a) siinpected that Twas under water bp ...~ owes toy SRHOE he Dandages off my ATEN that day, being in a y ‘There was no hesitation the man. *f* f e pre i ugly trame of CHAPTER X11. ner in saine on. Khe bore PH 3 = ped pay ey ' I tucked « rifle under ‘RING the last of that month down epeed which the sake my arm, and had myself of nightmare IT felt aw if 1 Hare we come to take in my condition of body, that eee looking for trouble—other- my junk heap. I'll mine? ut a ball through q red to us, I had to one of the mates when you are no friends of ours, We'd be playing who had been promised a full meal of w; have a few words to say that tug that will disturb her innarls mot atop. Now ive ert earl i? he dared to break hor usual silence Ms iadveyee'on that individual for giving off orders that you are going the parts of idiots to keep that gold canaries. about your way of boarding ecriously.” OU have ‘set aa an oLample” Yat om the matter of the treasure when weeks, He remained always in his to pack the treasure into boxes suit- there on board the Zizania, But there __In order to add to the gereral peace steamer. If it's ianorance of ‘Thoy went sullenly and grudgingly ne aed ait a nwo ‘dia OU we were on deck one afternoon after antry cell ke a hermit, reveling in able for handling. Say that loud isn't @ harbor nearer than Acapulco of the oequsion the mates allowed the and etiquette, I'll overlook it.” but they went. Thoy knew that it Shee toute Kl # Man who did not my sicep, She had been gazing at me the steam of food, stuffing himself enough wo that all the men will hear.” where we can land it—we cant lug It usual deck watch to xo below and “mea yauette, | Capt Peart,” onapped Wal useless to wtay. i eninyed tones He leaped upon the rail, and aimed S0frowfully while I stared into the tven'while he was cooking for other, “Il be jobeifered it I'don't bolieve aahore on the Open coset Chroust the sleep, and the iasy galore were CAiy the spokesman, @ Chap Who Ware & So setae te ay wits tae an oe iaiena ee cee, He rolled rather than walked across Ive got to handio a junatic as well 8 breakers—wo can't dodge all around too glad to avail themselves of the hard fat and looked \ua though bo Pression on Keedy Fick's face as th “We can fight the way you do. If , "Oh, what use is itmany of this gqrea atte harre ua prope @ mutiny,” fumed Capt, fearte “Ate the Pecillo Coren we Te ene ne terntlulon: When ten Tre APCTINE had just closed @ desk in an office. ve ie ae Oke oot on, the we catch you there on bottom again 4readful work and worry, dear boy of ping up the rolls of fat which shut- you advising me to pack up that there's another complication beside in satisfactory fn eer Poa itso We are from Ban Francieco and you'll be pulled up with six of these You have told me that you gold so that it will be easy lugging Fick and his crowd. We have still slid their hatch ov They anchored thelr craft @ little tered his little eyes, represent the underwriters in the eh ” distance from us, and I could readily stlcling in you.” “He patted the knife frate "and ‘ature Inte the tonheee “don't know how much there is for the crew? With us i aay, «wovcanrt keep tat peeperss ns wutee © SUFDriv® BY anatier of the Gaiden Gate gry imagine the eort-of council, st wer his belt. f threaten {Roush you wore er wiches Tee oo or where you're Respiog (i) be blurt | (As moan Oo) thay believe that 1¢ sy mold on board. We'd pay for that “Netore the two belle after midnight my tthoe,s toutes the emit And Baty seuiesot bit tas tert eemee are men who ¢a hreaten 5] oe, 1 Mi -whistle - - , 4 ir mu io 5 ed ag bluster. There is an- errU man in my pantry and mind my business, thoye boxes have been mude, They é nN — . @ white fi ‘The spok litel: ther kind of hi Y ever did. You are getting their gold a 1- will not need clubbing to make them @re safe, To-night the five of us wi the muzalo of the first rifle, rising ag. eaman politely Block and a word: aGd Yon fave Gax for them, But you teal that they are But Teer ye ne eerie Une etarboard WOrk Spry at that Jov—rand we need et busy, pack that gold in the strong CHAPTER XIV. over the edge of the upper deck. “If stated that they had come to talk coming to take it all away—and call he means what he says. I went away pe Fat from that sloop feoling that if I were desperate enough just then to commit and drop it overboard.” I boxe: “Great Guns!" groaned the captain. “T said you was crazy, and now I'm those bokes ih a hurry, captain, say I know what I am talking about, We need a willing and smart crew and I hear both std But shall consider it ome business in pri: they come up hei an insult to me @ and begged alley, to be allowed to come on board. HE next morning Capt. Peart there's only one side now. They said ordered the checkerboard You cannot deceive me, dear, as to your thoughts. When a of this vessel My swoetheart was with me on { if hat’ the mon! tall started the Ghd amet deck when they climbed up the lad- suicide, an easy way had been opened Women loves a man truly she knows bs 7 tten the just now on that work, Look here, sure of it. Dig it all up, a crew assembed on the main = ‘The man hesitated. en they clim!| up a for me. eWay ls his thoughts, Men are always unjust TOW. But, they have forwalten tut Capt. Peart, you have told, me bec throw it away again! No, let deck, forward. He appeared “We're no pirates,” remarked Capt, der. She had remuinod her woman's “I'll tell you what has happened, @nd cruel and unfair when it is a most anything. They've got together fore this that I have been crazy in put it in the boxes, Let's hoot and on the bridge, and leaned Peart. i“ w conten ages go per Capt. Peart," I reported. “Fick hag Guestion of much money. Those men at last. They are going to grab for some of my id Kut I have won holler and cavort around the deck The man gave orders to @un- as' ment, and with as fran! = ot next to that gang on his way up Will act that way to you when they {t, ‘They thought I haven't been hear- Out. I have mado good, There's no and heave it overboard one ingot at Over the rail like a candidate ready mon'to remain below miration. Ab, she did look partiou- coast. He has seut them here to stop Come, You know they will, I say, ere shut and time now for further explanation, a time, so as to sco Who can make to make a stump speech. But, unlike “If you are not pirates,” he said, larly sweet, her little cap on her our work, There's no other way of They, will misudge all you have JE era ty pe asleep You've got to do as I say. You the biggest splash. Come on—let’s a candidate, he had two revolvere When we were assembled in the ourls, hor sweater displaying her win explaining the stand they have taken, done, ought to have had your lesson by this time that I know what I'm talk. ing about.” He shuttled his eyes when I looked have fun!" he raved. “I am far trom boing crazy, Capt. Peart,” I informed him, giving bim the hard gray eyo so steadily that he “What do you mean, my man?” IT demanded, . “I mean that you oan play checkers on that checkerboard crew now, sir. wheelhouse, “you can show it by turning over y us the gold you've Sho seemed to astonish them, I say. dug out of the wreok over yonder.” The next moment she astonished me. “Way should we turn that gold She walked into the wheelhouse by some curves of beauty. I don't know what arguments Fick ‘used, but they're our enemies, and pro- pose to stay that way. They think they're on the profitable side of the strapped to his waist and in plain sight. have a few words to say to you Rad clenched her little fists and kept on: “I say fight back, Ross, It may be their money—somebody's money—but o1 Y ; ide and was the fret, to speak. t him. He was remembering those began to blink. “To each box we'll critters down there," he began, ‘I OVer to you?" asked the captain a M4 . 0: Phey en to what did it do It hag settled together into @ solid 4! " jeaman was a rather excite. “Gentlemen,” she said to the three, It, too, You may think I'm doing « strength and your courage and your Russian Finn tg captain, | He killed © Tit of Bimself by resisting me, I the surface. That eee uieey] planning to do, I have watched you ger on the captain's breast. how my poor boy has suffered. You lot of guesswork, but t know those Prains, and got it'up trom the bottom Myct. Ihave anid | would got even would have explained my pian to him rope cable-say ten frat of ft—hitchad Planning to do. I have watched you ger on the captain's bret. |. how my Door boy hae suffered, You Tuen have geen Fick, and he has given of the ocean? I don't know what the With him. He ls captain, and they arm tle £00 t was not trying to humiliate to the end, and the rope will be for thom boxes, Well, you won't Ave No right to come here and op- have watched him do what he has them a line of talk that has clinched Iw 1s about such things—T don't care, Rolng to drop onto that wold and run fap Heart or vaunt my own intel- Hoyed by @ smuil spar. The box and ing for them boxes. nm erate, Have you got attorneys’ pow- done, but the marks are on my soul, them for his side. ‘They are sure that I've heard you and father talk, but 1 Way. ed a mutiny?” — afecling that every moment counted, stitne chain will be on bottom. ‘The find them. ‘Them boxes are good rat” Have you got anything le tho I koow. Thete to ime we te world, Yound-up we're going to only know that often in this life Mutiny and'all tho aide diaheathat T aid Hot want ton wane timer in Small spar with its rope cable will ways off.” way of permite? No, you haven't, and all such, and men are ton apt to lose. m not so damnation cer- 1s one thing and justice 1s another." “Mutiny and all the side fo waste ne wim well: wi @et angry in law and when there ia 70! go with it. I have ments 1 wasn't Jeep when they thou; wna. mt to go back, I have duff in the pot." He backed to the ladder and let himself down, rung by rung, grunting more terrifically than before, ‘The girl leaped to her fect, She held her clenched fists above her head, Her white teeth showed he- ‘That gold belongs to other people, Give it up and save trouble.” “Excuse me if I say a word here,” in, “I am a partner in this 1s & polite word for this kind of @ job,” sneered the man. “You may represent the underwrit- ors,” I eaid, “but to all intents and purposes the underwriters had aban- pounding into the captain's compre- hension the details of the scheme wich our present emergency called or, Mate Number-two Jones came clat- tering along the deck from below. He shoved a red and greatly troubled face in at the door, “Get your guns, Cap'n Peart!" he panted. “They're grumbling and pointed a stubby finger down at tain but what they ure right, out cheap myself, right now,” T went and tumbled into my berth, and viewed the ruins of that idea which 4 Dhad been building so prayerfully. It looked to me then, in my despond- ency, as if Kick was holding mighty good cards. If he had decided to turn informer, he could demand, and would I'd sell “There are the laws of salvage, the way I'm feeling sweetheart,” I told her. “We could turn this money over and wait for the courts to decide, But I'm afraid of what may happen if we do that. There's that renegade Fick with his New—there are the customs men of Mexico, and all that mess of interna- tional law to complicate things, Fick can claim partnership; the shippers water. In caso wo want to raise the He box we can catch the rope and spar the Russian Finn, With @ rake, or drag for it with a... ¢° Come Up here!” he commanded, chain between two boats. ‘The best jhe, Finn turned pale and shoo! Place to drop those boxes is over the Dead . °} ou come up here, and I'll promise Fall of the Zisanlu. The men who i,t cmon? he hues fa eros Propose to take ua by the throat in 4) take back @ report to that gang of this attair cannot hold as with urs” fe you deat Obey a tnastors one hand and take that gold with the ” other. Those desperadoes forwara orders. and come up here,” continued much money concerned. Can't you all keep from being angry to-day, and be wise, and decide on what is right?” The queer little amile she gave them started the grin on their faces. The ty ice was broken. Those men wero Tie | human once more. The girl bad | given the magic touch to the con- ference, 4 in tho captain, pulling a gun, “it will be doned this treasure. It's a matter for And when we had pegun to talk on undoubtedly receive a noble ruke-off, can claim shares, I suppose: this one neath the crimson of her parted lips. mumbling. It means mutiny. Will never have wit enough to know te Cana A Kat Mew to Gbal With’ thee GOUTTR te matte. TORTI fa nate thai noe taeae came to an under- It Was probable that he would inform nd that one can dip in their fingers; She drove her hands down at her ‘Take your guns with yo , {f you what we have done with the treasure, mutiny. I'l shoot you where you tled you have no right to come abourd standing, men to men; we made a - ~for that would be his natural, lazy and lawyers can tic the matter up; and gides, like,” I told the captain. "But go As for Fick and those with him, I gtand.”” here and take this monoy.” trade which was founded on the jus- method of making his nioney out of the God only knows when tt will be all un- — «Qn! she had gasped when her down thera as cool as you can, Give have my own ideas us to a story," After @ litte besitation, the Finn “Woe are aboard—and we shall take tice of the case instead of on greed ‘ thing, ‘The posting of the pearl divers ted so that we can get what we have nands were above her head. When off your orders as though you did T hate to see that gold go under climbed the ladder. it, my frien and grab, in behalf of the underwriters would honestly earned. We may have to she drove them down her woman's Hot notice anything. And be sure to Water again,” mourned Capt. Peart. The captain led him into the “Rights or no rights?’ We gave our oaths, Capt. Peart be an additional feather in his cap; on fight for our Hberty, for men are crazy S00) spoke its anger and horror, throw out that hint about why you “Lf the old Pacific Ocean gets, hold wheelhouse, into all the state rooms, It haa been made a grab game, and and I, when wo signed the papers the other hand, if he pr sed to come enough to try to make us out thieves, “Damn tif name of gold!" she cried; Want the boxes made, This is no time of it a second time I don't bélieve and took him on @ general tour of we’ in on the grab!” He was reculating the division of that treas back with a backer and new equtpment providing they can get hold of much and 1 would not have indorsed a to bull this game of ours it you don't wt ever let go." inspection of the upper deck mighty ‘overbearing and offensive. ure. that we would never disclose wwhaving discover my system-he }e4 onal ve r 0) er. or e' bape “Ll kno er, Ci 4 ve “Now Lal n He considere: at he ha @ might what we received for our share. | had good reasons for leaving men be- been Pounding it all out tn my poor Milder phrase even from her | 2 areMvand-—smash go all Our cKES Know better, Captain. We ha Now you a see with your ow @ fairly hard clay bottom here, It will be easy work catching those spars, We have @ strong derrick forward, [ should think you would prefer to slide betind him—a fortune was concerned and he was showing the usual spirit of the world. “You have full powers in this mat. head. And I can't scem to believe that the law is going to give us what we ought to have, For, you see, this thing eyes that there isn’t any gold up here to mutiny about, You o ‘wok and tell your gang what you have propose to ke though sider it But hind him who would hold us in cheek, 4 If Fick returned with steam pumps he could rip the bottom out of the Pacific. bp that oath now, ever years have passed my private business. and you'll be responsible.” Capt. Vash Peart was no fool, and he knew when a man was in dead of seething particles of schemes relat- ing to my central idea. I reckon It needed a shock—needed the desperate T con- ‘ u f you may have heard of tho wr makeshift equipment would not be an't like anything ‘else that has ever occasion of Instant action—to make ®#Mnest. I pushed him, and he wont. that gold Into a safe position over nue peda ie rather, wet wie oat Pr ESB ed the underwriters are Sidney Wrecking and Salvage Com eof high. <i ; if Y ) ole oe regi riot pd 4 . 4 tn . ° 6 Ic coast, Ross Sidney, pres- Whether ho came piloting the under: alight, her cheeky fuming Under the For a moment I was stunned by the #* & food aotor when he ar: ae lawyer divide tee O% | “T give you ail Itborty to hunt ‘Absolute.” He drat yD He gave off his or- ders and bawled that inf: the mate about why he w boxes in a tone which carried oon- or cheating lawyers divide it, He writhed like a speared fish when he pondered on tho alternatives. [ of this new danger, And action came to me ‘ation. No, it was prospect then a course of in a flash of insp' tan. “You have fought the ocean for their sakes as well as your own—and you have won, Koep on fighting, boy ® Writers, or ca » @ a rival “thier? ; T talked with Capt, and waved them under my nose, “Is- sued due and regular by the court and the United States.” the lower part of the steamer from on his own hook as ennet, ea “You can help manager and soly owner y your own conclusions as to made a good trade or nat. mation to nied the forepeak to rudder,” captain over the rall, Peart on that 5 r q i ; “But don't you realize that you are "t know what sort of a trad jf matter the next day. He rubbed his © mine, Plan something, do some. not inspiration—it was the result of oten | went out on deck and left him to yourselves to ali te gold you find, ont’ hy gee Valted States, in Keedy Fick made; | only know that Nowe and seroffed his thing—-get into some position where @!l the thinking I had been doing think on the matter, confident that Hut | can teil you that there ain't 4 p, b Kk I've been he died, arunken a “Dusted” Ruessed that Vick would need at they'll have to come to you and beg Without making up my mind to act.” I was looking down from the bridge, his slow mind would finally swing ts an ounca aboard here, That wold. is Med) Ines the SAGE TNS 200K 0 Sie: a wants Tatas i ees A month. He hud gone in a schooner, for what's theirs, You have earned | T hobbled to find Capt, Peart in his and I saw the men of the crew °x- my way of making tho best of a bad stowed whera you can't get it.” Ho Waiting for you to make, my d or, old, wimple tke, W and schooners made slow time even the right to make them beg. And you stateroom. change winks and grins behind the matter, wept his hand in a gesture which Dut I'm guing to sve your rain. an ‘ Acar elaine with trales behind them, And know you have.” I had to push him back when he C@Ptain's back, The checkerboard crew was at work embraced the Eorison. “If you act fit yoy one ee oe tt cae dd my fret work ue penceat ¢ 4 the return expedition must fit, Yes, 1 did know it. And on that had heard a dozen words of what L The model crew of the crack ship {n f a real frenzy of eftort ike men from now on until this oie dog eat dog in this gamma we're ager of salva, business when [ IT asked the vaptain for his estt- bellef I had based my idea which had reported. He had grab‘ed his pis- all the world could not have shown J have no doubt that cach man con. cruise is over you'll be patd Ike playtng. We happen to have the bossed four divers for the rest of the mate o! the amount of treasure in served for my encouragement, fola, and was rushing to Kill off a such willing obedience. ‘They went to sidered that ho was building his own lords. If you hunker for mutiny, Playing. you don’t hand over that summer on San Apusa Barcfour our chest. Her advice and her woman's spirit few prospective mutinecrs as an ex- their work on the rush. Saws rasped box—and ho was putting his best start In and mutiny, Them who live gold, we shall put a crow on board divers, steam pumps for hose, and all He told me that we had rising in the matter heartened me, She had ample to the others. and hammers banged, There was clat- work into his treasure carrier. through it will never get @ cont: thig’ steamer, guard our men with the fixings, having ordered them sent rters of # million, acted like the lady of the castle of “You have got to do what I advise ter of iron and hum of industry. The summer evening was long, ang them who uro killed won't need ritioy and act this boat into waters down from San Francisco. We got up ny. It has become @ matter Whom I had read. She brought to me in this matter, captain. I've bein Those men felt, I reekoned, that they thy crew lahared an a ptus thetr sup- money where they will fetch up, where we have jurisdiction. I'll be another million dollurs’ worth of in and go-live or die—-with my helmet and shield, and was send- making plans, We've got not only ware ating aay plg es Up tnat per, According to my best Judgment, | The men fel to muttering amonk frank to say that then we can beat gotw in a hurry. | did that job on os With tome tha no third oF thas SPE me out, to paiiie, Ae © brave this crew to cons der, but Ay ang os 4 “a a 1s es for geal tv when darkness shut down on their themselves, bn you in court tn the lying Barna, be- percentage. The first p gold in our hands, we're in no posi- woma ould fi ose he is bringing down h « ‘apt. Peart le: work in charge labors there were boxes enough for had be cause wo start with law behind us, my new friends—the underwrit Hon to do buses the way T want nore about my idea=but we were ins is coming, We may as well make u of his mates, and came back to hit our purpose, ‘The men went to their lender ade item atlll mors mélan- ang “you're handicapped, 1 uy this wan that { wo down. tvse ing 19 do 8 s whe he pinch co ‘ eve da, our minds to it i want you to stateroom to resume his watch over rest on the berth deck in the fore. Choly They divided a aet the to show ou that you'd better fork that L had bt An ONDE But Un ot the rout of ith" if ainnere was a grunting noise in the down on th: jmain deck as quickly ay the treasure, 1 closeted myself with peak of the mtoumer, Capt, Peart had blacks from the whites—and went over two warm arms went around my neck ut you said you knew ther ection of the ladder whieh led to you can, and order the crew to set him, Temarked casually in their hearing about their tows, { was holding my temper. For the and held me back, and a kiss sealed freaser pick would poke their the lower deck, It was wuch @ pro. out planks and start in making strong — “Now we'll get down to the bed that he would wit til nent day be- "f want to suy, Sidney, that you sake of my own conscience in this my lips when I was about consenting ives into Ged knows Im digious puffing and wheesing and boxes. Have the junk overhauled for rock of the proposition Captain Peart, fore pacting the ingots: Foo my showed good judgment,” said the affair, I wanted the other side to to the appeals of those men, hungry for th st of the treasure, grunting that anybody might suppose scrap iron, for chains and cable, Get We have agreed—you and I—that poat on the bridge, though the dusk captain as ho went to his stuteroom, Yay ail their cards on the table; in Those warm arms have held me Bidney, but I'm no Keedy Fick.’ phat we were going to recalve @ Visit after the men, Hustle them. Make Miek ts about duo here, ‘We dont had. deepened. caught @ cheerful “But I don't feel Mke giving three from @ hippopotamus, thetr ineolence and confidence, they The seemed inclined to do so, for their Bielm intent was to intimidate us, back from the bottom of the sca eveg it @ hurry-up job, Busy men won't wince, “Tm going down at night, Captain Peart, have time to talk mutiny. And say know who will come with him. But wink or two between man and man, We can be mighty eure that they'll be cheers—not while that gold ls back aad thoy went below lookiag like oats Ipswich Glutton, the cook of op the bottow of the Pacifie Ocean,” (The End.) my teres i