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Show . iu..ii. iU,1L.ilri-- nrfnfiTV'i - Mthmitodm THE PAYSON CHRONICLE. PAYSON, UTAH of the By WYNDDAfl MARTYN IN TUB U. & COPYRIGHT THE STORY Unwin NU and Howard Floyd BettliiKton taka dinner with an old college chum, Alfred Gibbons, Unwin profinancial magnate duces a written pledge taken by the three at college to help each other In adversity, explaining that he needs financial assistance to educate his son Bob and daughter Mary. Gibbons scoffs at the legality of the pledge, but agrees to make a place for the daughter In his organization. Mary Unwin Is stenographer to a wealthy debauchee, Elgar Itnd-iv- . Calling at Gibbons office, as arranged. M.ry Is asked to betray her employers secrets and but 1. too, read the papers Boss, In the Idiom of poker, 1 have called your bluff. In almost eveiy case I have hud to do that to get m.v crew. Tuke Sam, for example. Sam. under another name, was doing rather well bootlegging across ttie Canadian line In Rangely he was on the way to become respected. It was necessary to remind him that lie hud broken from Danneinora. I was compelled to build bold It over him." up his real past. The Boss waved his delicate hand It Is a truism tliut Knowairily. ledge is power. have Just told you by what method I have the whip hand of what you call my first murderer. " "But why put me In possession of It?" Bettlngton demanded. Tliut strikes me as a very unwise step. "Because, my dear Andrew Orme, have Just as strong a hold over you." Bettlngton made a gesture of despair The Boss had not the look of a crazed man; but this sort of talk pointed to an egoeentrleiiy not far from megalomania. lie had the delusion of power. Andrew Orme, said Bettlngton. 1 refuses. Kadway plans an ocean voyage to recover from the effects of dissipation. Mary Is to go as secretary, her brother to her. Bettlngton. acompany painting on the Maine coast, la kidnaped, and taken aboard a verse 1. His clothes are found by Gibbs, a fugitive from justice. 1 1 CHAPTER IV Continued Bob sauntered off feeling that he had come face to face with men more evil tlmn he bad ever known before. On the deck above his slater was; he had been told he must not venture there. Above that deck was the wireless house. In which he was deeply Interested. He had seen a cheery young man In uniform, who had been pointed out as the wireless operator. But between the two was a great gulf s fixed. Sparks wns an officer. Bob had entered upon his new task with too great an enthusiasm. He found himself called upon to do certain greasy and oily offices usually performed by engine room help. Metzger, the chief engineer, swore at him viciously when he began to ask quesOn the tions about the engines. whole, he found himself, for the first time In his life, distinctly unpopular. Per-hap- Barnegat Light wns In sight when Sara, at midnight, came Into Betting-ton- s cabin. The Boss says you can see him he growled now. Bettlngton followed him along a dim passage to the extreme stern of the vessel. Here he unlocked a door loading to a companion wav which brought him to a quarter deck at the after part of the yacht. There were two big wicker chairs and a table. Sam motioned him to sit down. Then lie knocked at a stateroom door and wns hidden to enter. Toure to go In," Snm said a few moments later. "Ill wait here. It was not surprising that a certain emotion of excitement and, perhaps, apprehension seized upon the painter as he moved toward the door. What manner of ruffian was he to confront? And what was It that he had been predestined for? A man oho could hold a turbulent and ferocious brute like Sam In thrall, would probably be one of greater power and violence than he. Never, Bettlngton confessed, as he entered the stateroom, had his prejudgments been more at fault This was no towering bully, no disciple of school of underworld the strong-nraristocracy who looked at him. Apparently the man was of the same social class as himself. The Boss was a little, slender man, delicate of feature and limb. Ills face had that Ivory pallor one associates with extreme old age. And yet, he did not seem to be an old man. He was smiling as Bettlngton entered; he smiled while he talked. I am afraid, said the Boss, after waving his guest to a seat, that you have not enjoyed your voyage, I have not," Bettlngton returned. I may tell you at once, that I resent the whole occurrence. It has been one outrage added to another. That they had their origin In a mistake I know very well, but the effect Is Just the same and I demand to be put ashore at once. We are provisioned for a year, said the Boss calmly, and most likely shall not touch any port for one month." "I shall, snapped the painter. I think Pot, the other corrected gently. I expected you to make these protests. Sam has told me of your attitude and I admire It. The wise man differs from a fool In knowing Just when to try to make terms. We are here to talk business." "Look here, Bettington began, I explained to your first murderer out there, that there had been some mistake of Identities. My name Is Bettlngton; I am a painter of seascapes and my studio is on Last Thirty-fourth street The Boss took from a small table a New York paper. "Did you have a pleasant funeral? he asked suavely. He passed the paper over the table and pointed out an obituary notice tucked away In an obscure spot. "Bead It," the Boss commanded. The paragraph was headed: Marine Painter Killed. "Falls From Fire Escape in Dark." Bettlngton read an amazing description of his death, burial and life's work. The chief witness at the Inquest was Floyd Unwin. Unwin hud been amazed to see his friend, whom he thought to be out of town, and climbed to his studio to call upon him. The rooms were seemingly In darkness nnd none answered the knock. In the morning the janitor had discovered the mutilated body In the yard. Floyd Unwin end h had ldentl-ifie"Well-Know- n d It. It was 3 -- lever idea, said the Who is he? "Ill tell you." The Boss passed a box of cigars to the other. "Andrew Orme did very well at Yale. He was on his way to become a great surgeon. Then he found within himself the curse of gaming. He needed He found he possessed the money. dangerous gift of copying signatures. So he forged. And when he was discovered tie killed the man who threatened to give him up to Justice. He hud committed his murder in San Francisco and was sent to San Quentin as a life prisoner. He escaped and was absolutely lost from view. That was almost ten years ago. I found him by accident. I nutomobiling In New Knglund and needed water for I went to a fishera boiling motor. mans shack. There I found one Jonathan Gibbs, disguised with a heard nnd clad In the rou h garb of a fisherman. Much the same picturesque costume as I did not tell him you wear now. that I knew him. At that time I had no possible use for him. It was not until three years later that I made n of my knowledge." one thing was cleared up, at all events. Bettington had been shanghaied because he was thought to he the fisherman whose clothes he wore. He saw now how strangely fortune had deserted him. Out here at sea, he could not prove himself to be the And the mysterious man he was. death of a man like enough to himself to be Identified by Urnvlu all added to the difficulty of setting himself arduous tasks before him. I know and he realizes it now that he has come aboard to till himself with the rich food and alcohol tils physicians have forbidden him for a year. Every year, I find, tie has spent a month In this manner. At the end of theRe trips he goes hack to his office ami works like ten men. But this year he has had hardening arteries and planned to be temperate. That was why tie brought tils wife and the That was why tie sent me girl. tills telegram. The Boss showed Bettington the wire Mary Unwin had He sent to Clements," Bar Harbor. honestly Intended to stay sober or tnodei alely so." And won't tie?" At dinner I ly drunk. tonight he was offensiveheard tils wife whisper, After what you promised me. Elgar." It "Then you are a guest here? explained the luxurious stateroom In which the Boss sat. I ocam not," said the Boss. cupy an aiiomnloiis position; In a sense a derogatory one. It so suits me, for our purposes, to play the part of the steward. Bettington wondered why he felt a disinclination to ask this man who and what he was. He realized that he was In the presence of one from whom emanations of evil and unusual 1 s straight. lie remembered how Gibbs had feared he had entered his rude shack for gome Inimical purpose, And Sam had let fall that Gibbs had been shadowed. And Bettington recalled that Gibbs had been much more fearful In manner than any honest fisherman had the need to be. Undoubtedly Gibbs was Andrew Orme, surgeon and forger. . . . And Howard Betting-towus dead and burled. The anxiety thnt his face betrayed, led the Host to think he had come to a snuer way of thinking. "I am offering you a far better way of living than ever you had In Maine. When we are through with this trip yon will have money plenty of It and can spend It, and your life, In some southern port. "And if I dont accept?" The smile of the other man grew Irritating. "None knows of your being aboard but my men. There are only three of the men who are not for me: Hal-letthe captain, his nephew who Is the wireless operator, and a lad named Unwin. They can be eliminated . so can you." . So- - that was Unwin. why he hnd seen his old friend come aboard. It was his mechanically-mindeson who was among those of the crew presently to be eliminated. A mood of unusual caution took hold of Bettington. As skillfully ns possible he must learn what was required of him and to what perils those on the ship were to he put. But If you eliminated me, he said easily, "you would put yourself to some Inconvenience. You've put my cards on the table without any aid of mine. 'What about your own cards? The sensible men." said the Boss. Is the adaptable one. I am glad you are seeing the wisdom of readjustment. Here are my Cards, Andrew Orme. This boat was chartered, through my advice iy ;ignr Radwn.v, He ts aboard the now with his wife, a noted beauty, and a girl secretary. This hoy Unwin, of whom I spoke. Is the secretary's brother." Bettington hoped the other did not see the slight start he gave when he realized that Mary Unwin wns here. He remembered now that she wns He Rndway's private stenographer. thought of 8ani, of Metzger and those men who would be other likely to make up such a crew os this. Something of the horror he could not conceal betrayed Itself. "Do not be alarmed, said the Boss; "this Is an expedition planned only for the possession of money The women will be safe as long ns I rule; be sure of that." What is the scheme? Blackmail?" "Something simpler and cleaner. Radway ha come aboard, as be himself almost believes, to rest He has t, . Ill Tell You." The Boss Passed a Cox of (Jigars to the Other. powers were given out He was annoyed to admit It With Sam or the rest of the crew It was different They feared that the knowledge might bring them, if they forced him through disobedience to use It, to death or Imprisonment. But no man had such a hold over Howard Bettington. And yet he experienced uneasiness In the presence of this small, eternally smiling man whose neck he could wring with his powerful grasp as easily as one might choke the life out of a fowd. "What part am I to play? Betting-toasked. For a time, at any rate, he must seem to fall In with the others n plans. It may be very little," the Boss said. "This Is how the matter stands. Railway can afford to be away from his office for a month, lie has so ar- ranged things that ne Is safeguarded But to stay away for that time. longer would ruin him. Another financier, Gibbons, Is a dangerous antagonist. When the time comes. Radway will be offered the choice of ruin or a ransom of one million dollars. He In will bluster, threaten and fight. the end he will do as I have arranged. But the captain and the others? I have taken Will be eliminated. I shall seize the every precaution. ship and dictate terms." Bettington thought a moment. Thats all very well," he cried, "but you cunt carry off into captivity an International figure like Radway. Why, man, they'll send gunboats out and every ship we pass will be looking for us. There's uo disguising a craft like this." There will be no alarm. Letters will be prepared written In ltadway s hand, explaining that his health is benefiting slowly and that he will remain away for a few weeks longer. Mrs. Rndwny will write to her father, the senator, nnd the girl secretary will send postals to her parents. . They will disarm all suspicion. "How? Bettington demanded blunt You'll threaten them with violy. lence unless they write? The women won't do It, nor Kadway either1. Nevertheless they will be written. For wliat purpose do you suppose Anwas drew muster forger. Orme, dragged from Blackport, Maine? The Boss took some papers from a drawer. These he passed to Betting ton. Here are tetters written bv Mrs Radwn.v and her husband. Study them closely. You are to berth In the next stateroom." He led Bettlngton into an adjoining From It another room was eabin. seen. said the Boss, is the doctors otlice." He pointed to a parch moot on which the name John Waite wag inscribed. Bettington saw that Waite bad taken his degree of doetoi of medicine In the University of Lenu svlvunla fifteen years before. You will be known henceforth as rioctoi A alte," said the Boss. You will probablv have very little to do, but t That, wae fortunate that Radway required a physician. Otherwise you would have had to become a member of my crew. The real Doctor Waite, over whom I have some slight hold, lent me this und some implements of the trade, drugs and the rest of It. You will probably have to prescribe some sedatives for Radvvuy." Bettington knew nothing of medicine; he quailed at the Idea of having to look after a really sick person. Y'onr position us an officer will give you entry to the main saloon," the Boss went on. "You will be able to gain the confidence f the women and report to me what happens. In the role I have ussun.ed hear much, but He led the way to the upper deck which was also the boat deck and that on which the wireless room was. Hallett was a square built man und a He was embittered capable sullor. at having no higher coi tnand than this pleasure craft when his former companions were Blasters of oceangoing line! g. He was perpetually In a State of annoyance at the curious position occupied by Clements the steward. Actually Radway. on whose favor he was dependent, hud decided not enough. steward. 1 Bettington was g'ad to know thnt he would tie in a position to watch over Unwin's girl. It Is true site would not He supposed, yet know his name. until tie had decided what best to do In the face of dangers, he had better keep up the masquerade. The Boss took his acquiescence as a matter of course. It was not conceivable to that arrogant spirit that there should lie insubordination. You will understand. he said, "that as a ship's doctor you will have little in common with the ship's steward Of me you know nothing, except that 1 6erve El car Radway. But I should like to know more, said Bettington. "To the best of m.v knowledge I have never seen you before. How Is it you know me? They call you the Boss. What does Radway call you? I am William Clements to him. I am William Clemsaid the other. ents to you. There Is a stone over what the world thinks Is my body, in a prison graveyard. 1 have expiated In the world's eyes all my faults. He leaned forward and his thin hands And yet, Andrew clenched again. Orme. I shall make such a name for myself, that It will eclipse what the world knew of me ere it thought I died." "Mud, thought Bettington. "Crazed with the delusion of power." Aloud he remarked: "I see you don't wish to tell me anything. Very well; I am not curious." "You will find Hallett, the captain, a disagreeable and suspicious man. He resents my presence. Remember, that you came aboard Just before we sailed. lie will be annoyed that you did uot report to him. In your stateroom you will find all the clothes you need. If you take my advice you will turn In now. The advice was in the nature of a command ; but as It suited his own convenience to get rid of Gibbs clothes he bowed to it. Bettington was glad to he in his He could not sleep for new quarters. a long time. By what blundering ways he was to save Unwins children from harm he did not know. There must be, at least, a dozen men aboard, all under the domination of the Boss. The ship could no doubt be worked easily enough with llaliett, his nephew and Bob Unwin out of the way. Assuredly his defiance of the Boss would aid none of them. There was a helplessness about the situation comparable with nothing on land. CHAPTER V A Millionaires Holiday Bettington was awakened In the morning by a small boy who was the bearer of coffee and rolls. He announced that breakfast would be served In the main saloon within the hour. "This Is all I need, said Bettington. Whats your name? They call me Slivers. " said the boy, hut my real name Is Augustus. When he had dressed nnd shaved Bettington experienced the satisfaction of a fastidious man In finding himself once more In clean apparel. On the quarter deck he found the Ross, who smiled the even, ungradu-atesmile of the night before. Today he was in a neat blue and gold uniform. I had better Introduce you, he said, to llaliett and then to the rest. It Is most important thnt the women llaliett has already intrust you. fected them with some distrust of d several In Is it? This Is Doctor Waite, Cuptaln. he answered. Hallett from the beginning set himself to be hostile. "When did you come aboard? Bettlngton said what he had been told. Hallett spoke bitterly about shipboard etiquette and modern ways. Then he turned abruptly away as his nephew came up. This was a pleasant-man of who obviously shared his uncles The boy seemed opinion of Clements. excited and worried. What do you think of the skipper? Clements asked. "A hard man to handle, Bettlngton returned, "ns all obstinate men are. "He's of no Importance, Clements said idly. "Did you notice how Sparks seemed to be upset? Something has happened to his wireless. He finds he cant adjust It and has to call in the electrician, who is one of my men, to help him. I shall let It work for a few days. Again that calm assumption of absolute power from the little, slender man in his absurd livery. "When 1 decide that no messages may be sent or received, Graumann will get busy. Look, that's Radway. Radway bad come on deck to walk himself into a condition which would permit him to enjoy an unnecessary luncheon. Cocktails," he commanded, as he caught sight of Clements. He stopped short when he saw the stranger. faced I eat too much and I drink too much i nd my arteries are made up Like the of calcium, they tell me. rest of them, you will preach temperance. You are not here for that. Y'ou are here to patch me up if the need occurs." "Batching wont help you much," Bettington remarked. "If youre not up to the Job, Ill tell Clements to ship some one who Is." Abruptly Radway turned on his heel, lie did not in the least mind If he had left his physician angry. The aimer of fools and a poor man was a fool, In his opinion had no weight. The sen air was beginning to make him This would mean a rich hungry. luncheon served as that artist, the fat chef, alone knew how. A feeling of pervaded him at the sight of the cocktails. He told Clements to pass one to the doctor. We cant wait for the ladies, said Radway, and threw his drink down with a single movement. "I wish I could sip like you," he said to BettingWhen I want a thing I want all ton. of It, Instantly. 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