Show The lii e Mutiny of the Albatross It THE STORY Floyd Unwise end and Howard take calms dinner with an anold anold old e eoll chum Alfred Gibbon financial magnet magnate Unwin pro duce duc a written pledge pled Uk taken n by bythe b the tho three thess at college to help each Ach ether In is adversity explaining that he b. needs need financial assist an anoe to educate bli hie ion son nob Dob and dau daughter Mary Ir far Gibbon Gibbons scoffs of ot the tho pledge at the tho legality but arr agrees to make mak a pleas for forth forthe forthe th the daughter In hi his bl organization Marr Harr Idar Unwin I is II stenographer to toa toa toa a wealthy wealth debauches debauch Agar 1 read Had I way war Calling t at t Gibbons Gibbon office omu a u a. arranged Jrr Wry Mrry I is II asked to betray her hr employers employer secrets and refu refuses pin piau an ocean voyage to recover from the effect ef f facts of ot dissipation Mar Mary I II I. to togo toto to go 0 a U secretary h her r brother to I accompany her painting on the tho Maine Main coast I la I. and taken aboard a vessel Ills fl clothes clothe are r found by Gibbs a fugitive from Justice CHAPTER IV Continued IV-Continued Continued 4 Bob Dob sauntered oft off feeling that he had bad come tae fade to face tace with men more evil edl Til than he had ever known before On the deck above hit his sister slater was he be had been told he must not venture there Above that deck was the wire wire- less leia house home In which ho was waa nl deeply interested He lIe had bad leen seen a cheery young Toung man In uniform who had been pointed out as al the th wireless operator Hut nut between the two was 81 a great gulf fixed Sparks was wal an nn officer Per haps Hob fob bad entered upon his new task with too great an enthusiasm Ho found himself called ca upon to do certain greasy y and oily o offices usually usua performed by engine room help Metzger Metz Metz- ger the chief engineer swore at nt him viciously when he began benn to ask questions questions ques about the engines On the tile whole be he found himself for tor the first time In his hll life lite distinctly unpopular C e e Barnegat Light was Wal In sight when hen Sam at midnight came Into Bet Betting ting ting- tons ton's cabin The Doss Bose says lays you can see him now bOW he prowled growled followed him along a adim adim adim dim pass passage ago to the extreme stern of or orthe the vessel Here nere he unlocked a door leading to a companion way which brought him to a quarter deck at the after part of ot the yacht There were two big wicker chaIn chairs and a table Sam motioned him to sit down Then he be knocked at a stateroom door and was bidden to enter Youre to go In Sara Sam said laid a few moments later Ill wait walt here bere It was waa not surprising that a certain emotion of excitement and perhaps apprehension seized upon the painter painters as s he mon moved toward the door What manner of ruffian ruman was he to confront And nd what was It that he had been predestined for tor A man who could hold a turbulent and ferocious brute like Sam In thrall would probably be one of ot greater power and violence than he be Never ever confessed as he be entered the stateroom had his hll prejudgments pr prejudgments pre pre- judgments been more at fault tault This was no towering bully no disciple of the tho strong arm school of at underworld aristocracy who looked at him Apparently Apparently Ap the man was Will of ot the same social class as nil himself The Doss Boss W was I a little tittle slender man delicate of feature and limb Ills face fats had that Ivory pallor one associates with extreme old age And yet et he did not seem to be bo an old man lIe He was waa smiling as entered he smiled railed while he talked I am afraid said Bald the Boss noss after waving his guest to a seat that you have hav not enjoyed your voyage I have not returned I 1 ma may tell you IOU at once that I resent the vt whole hole occurrence It has been one outrage added to another That they thy had bad their origin In a mistake I know very well but the effect Is just the same lame and I demand to be put ashore at once We Ro are provisioned for a year said laid the Boss calmly and most moat likely hall shall not touch any port for one month I shall shall snapped the painter I 1 think tot not the other corrected gently I expected you IOU to make these protests protest Sam has hal told me of your attitude and I admire It The wise wiseman wiseman wiseman man differs from a fool tool in knowing just when to try to make terms Weare We Ve I Iare are here to talk business Look here began I explained to your first murderer out there that there had bad been some mistake mistake mistake mis mis- take of ot Identities My name Is Bettington Bet Bet- I am a painter of or seascapes and nd my studio is on I East Kast ast Thirty fourth tr street et The Boss noss took from a small table I a aNew New York paper Did you have bave a s pleasant funeral he be asked suavely lIe He passed the paper over the table and pointed out an obituary notice tucked away In an obscure spot Read Head it It It the Bow Hots commanded The paragraph was headed Well Well Known Known Marine Marina Painter Killed Fall Falls From Fire Fir Escape In Dark D read an amazing description description tion of his death burial and lifes life's work ork The chief witness at time the Inquest In quest was Floyd Unwin Unwin had been amBled amazed to see lee Us Lis friend whom he tie thought to be out of town and climbed to his bis studio to call upon him The rooms were seemingly in darkness darkness dark dark- ness and none answered the knock knok In the tile morning the Janitor had hall discovered dis- dis co covered coved red the mutilated body bolly In the yard Floyd Unwin and ha h had bad Identified nell fied It It was a never Idea said the By RI MARTYR PLUme 4 IK UC TUB TiL U O. ft L S Doss DOli but 1 I too read the papers In the Idiom of ot poker I 1 h have called your bluff blurt In almost almot every case I 1 have had to do that thai to get let my crew Take Sam for example Sam under another name Dame was a dc doing rather well bootlegging across aero tb the tb Canadian line In ID Hangel be he was wal on the Wit way to become become be be- come ome respected It was wa necessary to remind him that he had broken from Dannemora I 1 was wal compelled to build op lip his hll real past I 1 hold It over oer him The floss Buss waved aved his delicate hand airily It Is II a truism that knowledge know knowl- I. I edge Is ta power I have hate just told you by what method I have hue the whip-hand whip of what call tint first you OU my murderer But wh why put me In possession of IU it demanded That strikes me as a very unwise step my dear Andrew Orme 1 I have hue just as al strong a hold over you made a gesture of despair The DOlls Boss had bad not the look of a crazed crated man but this sort of talk pointed to toan toan toan an egocentricity not far tar from megalomania mania manta lie He had the delusion dE of ot power Andrew Orme said Who Is he he Ill tell you TOU The floss Boss passed a box of ot cigars to the other Andrew I Orme did very well ell at Yale He lie wason was wason wason on his hll way to become a great grat surgeon sur sur- geon Then he found within himself the curse cune of ot gaming lie He needed money lie He found he possessed the dangerous gift of copying signatures So he forged And when he was discovered discovered discovered dis dis- dis- dis covered he be killed the man Inan who threatened threat ened cried to give him up to justice He lie had committed his hll murder in San Francisco and was sent to San Son Quentin Quen Quon- tin as a life lite prisoner He tie escaped and was absolutely lost from Cram view That was almost ten years 8 ago 0 I found round him III in by accident I was as in New l England and needed water for fora a boiling motor I went to a fisherman's fishermans fishermans fisherman's fisher fisher- mans man's shack There I found one Jonathan Jonathan Jona than GIbbs disguised with a beard and clad in the rou rO ron ron-h h garb of a fisherman Much Aluch the same picturesque costume as ns you wear now I did not tell him that I knew him At that time I 1 had no possible use for him It was 88 not until three years later that I made madeU u U v of my knowledge One thing thine was cleared up at all aU events on had been shanghaied Bhang shang haled because h he was wal thought to be bethe bethe the fisherman whose clothes he be wore He lie saw now how strangely fortune had deserted him Out here bere at sea he could not prove pro himself to be the theman theman theman man be he was And the mysterious mysterious' death of ot a man like enough to himself to be Identified by Unwin all added lidded to to the difficulty of or setting himself straight He lie e remembered how GIbbs had bad feared he had bad entered his hll rude shack for tor some Inimical purpose And Sam had let fall tall that GIbbs had been shadowed And recalled that GIbbs bad had been much more fearful fear ful in manner than any honest fisherman fisherman fisher fisher- man had bad the need to be Undoubtedly Gibbs was Andrew Orme surgeon and forger torger And Howard Bettington Betting Betting- I ton was dead and burled The anxiety that his face tace betrayed led the floss Dos I Ito to think he had come to a saner wa way wag of thinking I l am offering you a far for better way of ot living than ever you rou had hud in Maine When we wo are through with this l trip you will have hate money plenty money plenty of It hand It- It and can spend It and your life In some lame southern Bouthern port And If I dC dont don't t accept The smile rulle of ot the other man grew Irritating None knows of at your being aboard but my men There are only three of the men who are not for me Hal Hal- Hallett lett let the captain his nephew who is the wireless operator and a lad named Unwin They can be eliminated so can you yon On Unwin win So that ft was as why he had seen his bis old friend come aboard It was hIs bis minded mechanically son Ion who was as among those of the crew presently to be eliminated A mood of unusual caution took hold of As skillfully y as possible he must learn what was required of him and to what perils those on the ship were to be put Hut But If you eliminated me he said laid easily you jou would put yourself to some Inconvenience Youve You've put my cards on the table without any aid aliI of mine mire What about your jour our own cards carlls The sensible man said the Boss Is II the adaptable one cue I a am in glad you are seeing the wisdom of ot readjustment readjust ment went Here lIre are my cards Andrew Orme This boat was chartered through my advice I by Elgar the multi millionaire lie Is le aboard now with his wife a noted beauty and anda a girl secretary This boy Unwin of whom I spoke Is the secretary's brother hoped the other did not see ste the slight start he ga gave gae e e when he realized that Mary Unwin was here He lIe remembered no now that she was Badway's private stenographer lIe He thought of Sam Sara of Metzger l and those other Ill lIl men who would be likely to male make up such luch a crew as this Something of the horror he be could coull not conceal betrayed Itself Do Po not be alarmed said laid the Boss noss this I Is an expedition n planned only for the po possession of money The women will wl be safe as long as I 1 rule be sure lure of that What Is the scheme Blackmail Something simpler and cleaner Radway adway has come aboard as lilt lie himself him him- himself self almost believes believe to rest He U. has hat arduous tasks tash before him I 1 know- know and end he realizes It now that now that h he b. has hu come aboard to fill himself with the rich food tood and alcohol his hll physicians have bave forbidden him him for tor a year rear Every year lear I find Ond he has hal spent s I month In this manner At the end of these trips trip he goes back to lo his hll office omee and works like ten teD men flat But this y year ar be he has haa had hardening arteries and planned to be temperate That was wal why be he brought his hI wife and the girl That was wh why he sent lent me methis methis this te telegram The Ross Boss showed th the wire Mary Marl Unwin had sent Bent to Clements Clement Bar Dar Harbor He lIe honestly Intended to stay Ital sober or moderately so an And MAnd wont won't be her herAt herAt At dinner tonight he was offensively offensive I ly drunk I 1 heard beard his hll wife whisper After wheat what you promised me Elgar Then you are a guest here It explained the luxurious stateroom In hi which the Boss Bose sat lilt I 1 am not not said the floss Boss I OCcupy occupy oc on cupy cup an anomalous position In a sense a t derogatory one Olle It so 10 suits me for tor our purposes t to pia play the part of ot the steward wondered why he felt a disinclination to ask uk this man who and end what he was lIe He reAlized that he be was In 10 the presence pres nce of one from whom emanations of evil ev and unusual l. l a h. h l M Ill 11 Tell You You- The Th floss Boss Passed Paned a aflex Box flex of Clears Cigars to the Other powers powen were given out fie He was annoyed annoyed an an- noyed to admit It Sam or the rest of the crew It was different They feared that the knowledge e might bring brine them If It they forced him through disobedience disobedience dis dis- dis obedience to use uge It to death or imprisonment But Dut no bO man had such luch a bold hold holdover over Howard And yet he be experienced uneasiness In the presence of ot this small eternally smiling man whose neck be he could wring with his powerful grasp Its as s easily as one might choke the life out of or a fowL What part am I 1 to play Bettington Betting Betting- ton asked Hiked For a time Ume at any aDY rate he must roust seem to fall In with the others other's plans It It 11 may be very ery little the Boss said This Is how bow the matter stands Had way can afford to be away from I his lets office for a month lie He has so arranged arranged ar are ar- ar ranged things that no tie Is safeguarded for that time But nut to stay Itay away longer would ruin him Another finan finan- financier cier cler Gibbons Is II a dangerous antagonist onist When the tho time comes uy will be offered the choice of ot ruin or a ransom of ot on one ons a million dollars He lIe le lewill will bluster threaten and fight In Inthe Inthe inthe the end be he will do its as I have hare arranged But the captain and the others Will be eliminated I have taken er e every precaution I shall seize the ship and dictate terms thought a moment all very well well he be cried but you cant can't carry ort off Into captivity an International figure like Why man they'll send gunboats out and every ship we pass will be lookIng looking look look- Ing for tor us Theres There's no disguising a craft like this There will be no alarm Letters will 11 be prepared written In Radway s adwa-s s shand hand explaining that his hie health Is I. benefiting slowly ly and wl that he will remain remain remain re re- re- re main away UY for a few te weeks longer Mrs Had WilY will write to her ber father tather the senator and the girl secretary will send postal to her parents They will disarm all suspicion How lIow demanded bluntly blunt blunt- ly Iy threaten them with violence violence vio vio- lence hence unless they write The women wont won't do It nor Radway Had way either I 1 Nevertheless they will be written For what purpose do you suppose Andrew Andrew An drew Orme master forger was dragged from Maine The floss took some papers from a drawer These be he passed to Betting Betting- ton Here are letters written by Mrs Irs Had Radway way and her husband Study them closely You are to berth In the next stateroom He tie led Into an adjoining cabin From rom It another room was seen een That said the Boss loss Is IB the do doctors doctor's |