The evening world. Newspaper, December 19, 1919, Page 29

« s THE EVENING WORLD. YRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1919. ] you Irish, but 1 do want thirty or forty, “Mr, Homiter appears still to be oc-/iter, T came to spare you and bring t of my body attendants to board with|cupied with the intrusive Mr. Comitt.| you safety for your ship and all —s ( a] really ought not to insist on #! hands, but you threw me down, and f i | your ‘part welcome like this, I never could push|now I'm going to blow you out of By Will Levington Comfort | Catten turned to me at this point|thys if on anybody” he wat Catten stood shell from down in the harbor| Up in the stern of his leading boat }anhd making « trumpet ands brought his eyes to mine with] tinounced to me fom Maing aaad a quick glance like a true mate, It] away: was then that I remembered what; “They've got numbers, but remem- Jerry Comitu had told me of the na- Blo) ee nent bass rng hod tives’ concealing four old bronze can-| f,om seeing ua As long as You ean.”" non, salvaged years before from a| I nodded that 1 understood. Also wrecked British man-of-war, Catten|! saw that Catten considered it as : ghty importatnt for me thus to Jeft almost immediately for a tour] ret the exact situation inasmuch as of inspection of our troops. he explained aloud like that, J never ‘The five hours till noon passed, and| knew a man who so hated to raise my eyes stung from scarching the| 's vo! and remarked } “No, you'd just commit assault x! IT turned to Catten, who didn't | ., “Good, Bowditch, I didn't think you) the doortender,” L answered move, though it appeared to me that i Supreme Monarch of an Island Fortress Hidden T Wade Jat put to Briet! meet CHET AST tere uaa ae Te OFLEEE eal to hie punters, ashore,” in the Southern Seas—This Was The Yellow boatawain of tne Virgins H f ad come! with the I boats, to assist Laffer.y jerked ny tric me back from the rail, ‘nt Reese . PONT orth a bit of gorilla-like, to the resene| ang the boatswain out of the water, | looking him in the eye, catching some Lord—Read of the Coming of Bowditch, Soldier } ot his nist onicer. land mount. guard over these two/ot hiv coldness of manner as I ine of Fortune, and the Grim War That Broke That 3 44.20%, him) overside for the present.) prisoners, Leaving our force in array | aired: Stee al HA 1 ‘ e's eto 4 + Taise & row," | on the shady side of the ship in the! not going to set him do} lonarch’s Iron Power. Catten . |iee of the maindeck cabins, Catten and | the you?” A Chinese helped me raise the boat-| | moved forward. % . | "Do what, Bowditch?" he inquired WANAORPLISCLSSLPSSAPOOPEAD owroin, ankle and wrist. The rest was} Just at this point we heard our|!n his most exasperating way THE EVENING WORLD OFFERS A NEW SERIAL STORY EVERY TWO heave and splash until 1 observed with| Jerry say nye slowly : ‘Blow her out of the water,” I WEEKS. relief that he could swim like a seal.|. " Right now, Deacon Frog: |Sald_ patlently {C-voright, 1010, by the George i. Doran Company.) | Between us, Lafferty, who in-| mouth, I'm going to blow you out| “No gentleman would permit any- ‘ —— Jolined te continue t ruggle, woat| of the waier—hear mo%* jthing like that.” Catten answered | SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS. oO" after the boatswain, Catten now| The threat continu glancing overside again, / { Benexe, a: f . remarked: “T wanted to spare you this, Hem- (To Be Continued.) ! on, tne estate re as Mea es aso, ena te, the beautiful daughter cf Major’ Holt, Jerry Comitu leads @ native febeilion, ‘and ‘avi’ war beeing “on "1 he inland. . CHAPTER IX. Ui the fifth and just, which I boanted aay \ Niele: ae this time the seriousness . ATTEN and I were at broak-| of the prospect sper aad daepe fast when the shriek of a|er among my gacultic This Store Open Evenings Until Christmas | mn he I tell you again, 1 } by | | : : didn't dire for the prospect—a battle i grounds for Catten’s Rajput helmet. | in small boate, or possibly on decks, M il 4 f {t appeared that he had made a| for the possession pf the Virgin, and \ H Hy reconnolter over Comitu’s territory,| (f” possibility of a big party of na- See) A ba “NG | . : es flanking around to scale the HA} i! i i] Hy | ang seen much that was Interesting! vai) with only poor old Major Holt , : uN th a } $ $6” | CARLETON PLAZA i | A if dull finished kid, hand Achic, patent; ip hand turned lier seis: pibdele Louis heel soles, en Le ! with aluminum plate iuminum plate, Every Girl Would Welcome QI ! ! | but had been unable to cross an open| back there in coinmand at the castle. rove) Louis heel with } stretch of shore to reach the castle} At least, it wasn't for myself that trail until darkness. The Islanders |! Was chilled and slowed-up that mo- ment crossing the harbo is had extended their guards to our) Woe kept the Virgin between us and walls on either side. the Islander’s bancos, Apparenuy so *Comitu has four guns that com-| far wo hadn't been observed even oft a rom the ship. We were close up to mand the channel,” Catten observed.| ine green Tusteflieoked plates, Lee “He ig not so interested in the Jeze-|there were no signs of natives on ‘bel as wo thought—not yet.” pee aoueeeaen cee other side ri sf , had not boarded, so’ far, Preseatly Day after to-morrow the Virgin 18) cit of the silence we heard old Hom- due to come in,” 1 observed, liter’s voice faintly over the bulge of “yes, she’s due day after to-mo--| his craft and froin the far rail: row,” Catten drawled. “Only she'll! “No, Comitu—no, Mister, come in’ to-morrow morning instead. In fact, she's lying up outside in the oMng now.” Emphatically this was news. I saw that Catten had been thinking about Mt for bours, and anything I might say | island had sent out would be tiresome to him. | “We're due for trouble right now, ton to greet him as he said, and cleared his throat, add- Messiay he would have in- ing: “This is going to be a yea war. ae ee nee Recias A ag) Monty you ot hOnIDe too | Sult d the commission and consid hard for action, Comitu is weathered. | ered himself honest and dutiful. 1 He don't make war just as you do in|heard Catten chuckle and the big ‘America, but he has his novel points,|/volce of Comitu now, sull from the old Jerry has. He's got the natives | water-level: @azzled over there. Mustache waxed| “Look here, you foul Skipper, stiff, red uniform for mid-day, green|we've got something for you!” . . for dinner. He and Labulamo move) And now we began to be busy on delicate, and doubtless are together.|our side of the ship. Lafferty, Hem- It wasn't just a whim—his passing | iter's first officer, app.arcd at the out from our midst yesterday, but Ij rail above us, the shady and neg- Think he meant to ieave us devas- | lected side of the Virgin. His tated a lot more.” Jopened and he slowly announced to ‘And the Virgin coming into| hs amazed self that he would be harbor in the morning,” 1 repeated. | forgotten as a husband and father ‘Catten was quiet a moment. !and cast in the uttermost parts. “Our little Jezebel hus been get-jif here wasn't Catten and five bo: @ng more and more important from| loads of the Yellow Lord's “tea- where I stand, all day,” he sald. “If| picking black smokes.” Gomitu takes the Virgin to-morrow) “Exactly,” Catten drawled % looks to me as if we've gut to] 1 never admired my fricnd’s nerve stand by the Jezebel as the one Way| more than that moment. IT had a eut. 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WIth) Catten Yet, but | knew a lot more the first sunlight the Virgin entered.} than on that day She was moving like a clay-white| behind, sk (ae shadow against the brown wail of the} was crowded with Chinese, « far cliffs, Catten’s eyes were on the! ing to Catten’s order. fferty small boats directly below, lying for-| just loosed my friend's Hand to 4 ‘ward and abaft the Jezebel. He had|/mine when the first of the natives w ook of calculation as he said} tumbled over the rail behind me. ot the harbor. His loft hand came| Ho rode the treads of that rope- out to me, but his eyes did not leave | affair ieisufeiy. I saw his long thn the entrance. legs swing over the rail—broad hips | “ghe's under way,” he remarked./and narrow shoulders almost like “1'm looking fo> her nose to be shoved] the time I saw him first in the frock in any second now” coat at Singapore. 1 didn't know Special Sale To-morrow MEN’S OVERCOATS ready-to-wear; made in our own shops 20.00 Made by our journeymen tailors, in our own shops, of materials that were bought long before the present high prices prevailed You get the advantage, therefore this wonderfully low price. We are showing a splendid selection of models in all our stores. I didn't grasp his plan, vbout to fall into the high-sea habit a string of sleepy yellow bo ng}of strong lan when Ci Gown on the trail behind me within |caught him securely, closing the fifteen minutes after Catten had | sages of spech. mentioned his idea. Sleepy—yes,| “I'm sorry, Latfert drugred and more or less helples Isn't personal the first hour or two of the day, for they passed the nights with their dope-canes. . . . Catten took the Chi mese as th filed them Into the small boats gathered at the |} stern of the Jezebel. M ww bite Virgin had slowly passed the trance rocks, and sung Hem siren-announcement of his arrival, 2} signal which all the Islanders knew. 1 imagined hate in it that morning Catten's med balefully in the scream!ng ‘ “Hai, none of that — Te may not fire after all.! ‘The words were from yas h ee) * Oh, I say, Bowditch, run up |bent forward to. she hin | t thirty or forty of your little/hack, Just in thpt eye toarpianters Yith thelr riftes—just] bulged because 4e raw add . thelr rifles, Bring the liveliest of/crowded with Orientals down th her green of the water. 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